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The following interview was 23 years in the making. In 1988, while taking a graduate-level journalism course at UNC-Chapel Hill, I intervi...

I met Pam Smallcomb at a SCBWI -sponsored ABC (Author Book Club) event in March and liked her good humor and practical advice so much, I as...

If it hadn’t been for The Sun magazine, I probably would never have met Amy Bonaccorso—Amy and I joined the same Sun discussion group a co...

I met Nan Chase more than two decades ago, shortly after I’d moved to Boone, N.C., to run one of the Winston-Salem Journal’s Northwest burea...

Dustin Beall Smith has been many things—a skydiver (in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Smith helped pioneer sport parachuting in the United ...

If you’re looking for a theme or commonality among the people I’ve interviewed for this blog so far, it’s pretty simple—they are all people ...

I knew of only two other people in college who were as low on funds as I was. One was Therese, a dancer/choreographer who was so broke she ...

Mary Amato is a Maryland writer who writes children’s books and teaches workshops on writing for children at the Writers Center in Bethesda ...

I met Barry Yeoman when we were both reporters in North Carolina. I was running the Winston-Salem Journal ’s one-woman bureau office in Boon...

(An occasional series, in which I'll talk with writers I know—or want to know—about the craft of writing.) Kim and I met when she and I ...