Month: January 2014

I am not an artist. I always start my introductions with that fact firmly stated. A writer, yes, but I don’t draw, paint, sculpt or otherwise do representational art. My mother, Dorothy Stevens, is a widely recognized painter and sculptor with decades of pieces to show for it. She has studied and taught. Her paintings … Continue >

I recently came across a delightful poem, “Fictional Characters[1]” by Danusha Laméris, in which the poet wonders this about the great characters in fiction: “Do they ever want to escape?/Climb out of the white pages and/enter our world?” As the author and creator of a teen time travel adventure story that crosses over from film … Continue >