by kristinoakley | Apr 1, 2022 | Conferences, Newsletter
Two weekends ago, I attended the Chicago Writers Association Let’s Just Write! An Uncommon Writers Conference at the Warwick Allerton Hotel. This conference was ready to go in March of 2020 when the world shut down. It was postponed to September of 2020, then to...
by kristinoakley | Mar 17, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
In this month’s Writer’s Book Club, I discuss Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of Remains of the Day. Never Let It Go takes place in England in the late 1990s at a boarding school called Hailsham. The...
by kristinoakley | Mar 4, 2022 | Newsletter, Writing Life
Exciting news — I’ve hired a book cover designer for my Devil Particle Series! His name is Patrick Knowles and his clients include HarperCollins, Little Brown, and Random House. He’s designed covers for George R. R. Martin and Charlaine Harris...
by kristinoakley | Feb 17, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to my Writer’s Book Club! Once a month, I’ll review a book and discuss how the book has influenced my writing. This month I’ve selected Station Eleven, a National Book Award Finalist, by Emily St. John Mandel which has also been made into an...
by kristinoakley | Feb 3, 2022 | Creativity & Craft, Newsletter
While revising the fourth draft of The Runner – Book Three of The Devil Particle Series, an odd sensation hit me. With only forty pages to go in this 340-page manuscript, I didn’t want to finish. It wasn’t because I found revising hard, though...
by kristinoakley | Jan 20, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to the first installment of my monthly book club! This month’s book is Scythe, a young-adult dystopian novel written by Neal Shusterman which won The Michael L. Printz Award for exemplifying literary excellence in young adult literature. Scythe is set in...
by kristinoakley | Jan 7, 2022 | Newsletter
For Christmas, I’d ask each of my family members to give me the gift of time and they came through! They loved the idea of spending a day with me doing something we both enjoy and gave me coupons for these adventures. After the holidays, I contacted each of them...
by kristinoakley | Dec 20, 2021 | Newsletter, Writing Life
After sixty years on this planet, I have all the material things I need. And those things seem to reproduce. Honestly, I’ve donated three carloads of stuff to St. Vincent’s in just the last two weeks and I’ve barely scratched the surface. So, while a...
