by Ruthie | Feb 7, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox, What to Read
Back again with a tiny excerpt from MADLY! Here’s a bit of Allie & Winston together, getting up to no good— “I’m merely pointing out that here you are, and here I am, a man who was very thoroughly picked up at a bar. What comes after the picking up at the...
by Ruthie | Feb 6, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox
Those of you who read Truly might remember that Allie, who is the heroine of Madly, comes very close to getting married for all the wrong reasons at the end of that book — but after talking to her sister decides, ultimately, to cancel her wedding to Matt. As I thought...
by Ruthie | Jan 23, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox
Hello, everybody! So, with MADLY coming in a few months, I wanted to share some bits and pieces about this story to get you ready for it — especially since I know that a lot of you aren’t book bloggers and don’t have access to advance review copies. One of...
by Ruthie | Jul 25, 2011 | Reading/Writing
It is something of a cliché in the land of academics that grad-school advisors are horrible. Mine was a grumpy man, distant and, well, professorial. I would’ve been convinced he didn’t like me, much less respect me, had it not been for his colleague, a...
by Ruthie | Jul 21, 2011 | Reading/Writing
Back in May, Gina Leigh Maxwell invited me to do a guest post on her blog, and this is what I came up with. Thought I’d repost today, just to have something fun up over the weekend. ——— Theres this scene in When Harry Met Sally where Harry and...
by Ruthie | Jul 13, 2011 | Reading/Writing
Cara McKenna told me on Twitter that she loves a good fessin’-up post in which a writer reveals everything she does wrong in her first drafts and has to fix up at the revision stage. I suppose gloating over other people’s mistakes does have its charms. Or,...
