Sarah E. Moffett

Writers writing should not join gamblers gambling. It’s just bad. And writers should definitely not go gambling when in the midst of writing a book. It’s just stupid.
But, oh so much fun.
When I walked into the grand and wide marble foyer, I was willingly drowning in the persuasive waves of ringing machines, purified oxygen and pulsating […]

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A friend lost a friend this weekend.
He was a loveable soft, gray furball of Cheshire infused smiles and Mufasa sized yawns bought for eleven dollars and a Pokemon card by a wide eyed boy a lifetime and several girls ago. Deemed Max, this fearless tom cat used his bantering paws to tame three yipping Chihuahuas […]

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Only in the literary world. This past week in the literary world we lost some, we lost some more, and we just…kept…on…losing. First up was the death of Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running “Family Circus” comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. The latest James Bond novel, […]

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Sunday morning I glanced at the columns in Washington Post’s Book World and promptly felt the need to add another shot to my Bloody Mary. It read like a Who’s Who for newly released titles covering divisive politics and doomsday economics. Over ten columns of lovely Sunday morning reading stared back at me with euphoria […]

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In honor of Father’s Day, below are some of my favorite literary quotes on dads. Ten points if you work it into a last minute Father’s Day card. Double it if you use one in a phone conversation.
“To be a successful father…there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for […]

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Atleast, that’s what the Book Industry Study Group, a nonprofit organization supported by the publishing industry, all but predicted with the release of its projections for the industry, which include a paltry 3 percent to 4 percent growth through 2011, when revenues should top $43 billion. CNN reported that the BISG expects little change in […]

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“It’s nice to have your own place, I will admit that. And it’s nice to have your own time because you can keep people from calling you on the phone and breaking your concentration. Of course, what they’re really doing by breaking your concentration is scaring that scruffy little fleabag back into the bushes.
“That part […]

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My heart is propped up by a Scotch. I just finished one of those books. The ones that pull your insides out through your eyeballs, wash them in enlightened intelligentsia and marinate them in emotion before shoving them back in word by word, page by page, chapter by chapter. “A novel is not, after all, […]

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Whoever said the first time was the hardest never tried to write a second book.
In a word, this entirely introspective, spastic, and enlightening experience may be summarized in three letters. ARG. Writing book two feels like I’m strapped down on a table enduring Chinese water torture that is percolating right through my forehead and out […]

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