You’ve heard the phrase, “trash in, trash out,” and you know it’s true. A writer is only as good as what she reads. If you read junk, you’re going to write junk. So fess up. What are you reading, right now?
My calendar-year bibliography to date:
The Mother of the Reformation by Ernst Kroker
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell
I Married You by Walter Trobisch
LadyLike by Rebekah Curtis and Rose Adle
Evening in the Palace of Reason by James R. Gaines
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Sentinels of Andersonville by Tracy Groot
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Unplanned by Abby Johnson with Cindy Lambert
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
The Book of Jeremiah
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Choir Immortal by Katie Schuermann (Yep, I did. You should, too.)
(I could hang out with Mrs. Wilkins all day. In fact, I did.)