Some of the most famous works of fiction ever written are novellas. And, some not-so-famous works of fiction are novellas, too 🙂 –including those written by authors from Cruciform Press. Since a novella has limited words to set a scene and establish...
Occasionally people ask me writing-related questions. Here’s a recent Q&A exchange between me and author Susan Gregory. Do you have an opinion you’d like to share on this? Â Susan: Latayne, I need your help… Â My WIP, The Virgin’s Midwife,...
I think a lot of people understand that a novella isn’t a novel, but they’re not sure if it has to do with subject matter: is a novella a “light” version of a more-serious topic? Is it a romance?), for instance. Some have only seen novellas in collection, and...
The throbbings begin— The stretching, vague pain, Then panic and wonder are mixed Like gall and wine. I wait, with Mary, As eternity invades my heart And the two millennia between us Efface like the thinning tissues That frighten her young-girl body. She gasps,...
Now that the angels all have gone away The shepherds, too, with them Staffs no longer rattling on paving stones; And those old fog-eyed men With sand in their beards, They, too, have disappeared Like their auger bones Cast into the eastern horizon. And now...
