Indie Book Awards
Where Are We Tomorrow? has been awarded a finalist medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It's been many years since the...
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taviblack
Apr 30, 20212 min read
Embracing Instagram as an Introvert
Social Media. Instagram. Twitter. For those of us who grew up with rotary dial phones, it can be an uncomfortable world. I was a hold-out...
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taviblack
Apr 21, 20211 min read
Working in Multiple Genres (and trying to market!)
I've always been the kind of artist that is interested in many forms, many genres--all of the beauty and tragedy out there. I was a...
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taviblack
Apr 2, 20211 min read
Dive out today in Levee Magazine
My short story "Dive" about a freediver in the Bahamas is out today in Levee Magazine. I researched the story by going diving with a...
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taviblack
Mar 15, 20216 min read
Favorite Books #8
I studied Ann Patchett's Bel Canto while writing Where Are We Tomorrow? as a guide for how to successfully write an ensemble piece. I...
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taviblack
Mar 3, 20211 min read
From Literary Fiction to Middle Grade
When I started my middle grade novel, it was just a fun project, something for my daughter and me to do during lockdown. Many of the...
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taviblack
Feb 25, 20211 min read
Favorite Books #7
Frank Conroy's Body & Soul is one of those books that stays with you in images, in feeling. Often, I will not remember exact plot...
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taviblack
Feb 19, 20211 min read
Favorite Books #6
I tend to love almost anything by Salman Rushdie. Considering the feminist slant to most of my work, you wouldn't think an author like...
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taviblack
Feb 15, 20211 min read
A chance to win with Authoress
Some of you know I've been working on a middle grade fantasy novel called Wished Forward. With every project, I always think it's a good...
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taviblack
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Publication Date May 31st
I'm excited to announce that Where Are We Tomorrow? will be released on May 31st, 2021. Preorder is available on Amazon (link button on...
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taviblack
Feb 2, 20212 min read
Favorite #5
When I read the bio of Abraham Verghese at the beginning of his fine novel, Cutting for Stone, I will admit had a moment of...
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taviblack
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Favorite Books #4
A friend of mine, on a celebratory election call yesterday, said, when introducing a poet, "The beauty of language is that when words...
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taviblack
Jan 14, 20212 min read
Some of my Favorite Books #3
I've decided to change my title to "favorites" instead of "best books ever". The competition is too large to lay this moniker on the few...
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taviblack
Jan 4, 20211 min read
Best Books Ever #2
Keri Hulme's 1983 Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People opens with a dense bit of prose poetry. Images and sentences that leave an...
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taviblack
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Best Books Ever #1
There's nothing better than falling in love with a book. How many times a year do we ache to get back into a story we've left off the...
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taviblack
Dec 8, 20201 min read
Short Story Cheer
I was asked recently, “Are all of your short stories so sad?” I had to think for a moment, remembering back over all of the stories I...
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taviblack
Nov 21, 20202 min read
Why I'm in Love with Poetry Unbound
Pádraig Ó Tuama might be my favorite new person. Every podcast has me on the edge of tears---not from sadness, but from an incredulous...
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