Elizabeth Donald·Feb 4‘Don’t swing at the first pitch’The worst contract clause I ever saw in a contract offered to me was basically telling me not to sell books.
Elizabeth Donald·Dec 1, 2025Attack of the podcastersMy current schedule is not the maddest it has ever been, but it’s certainly above average. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I go to Community…
Elizabeth Donald·May 24, 2025Meeting your heroesIt will turn out that the person you’ve idolized is actually a pile of shit in a plastic bag, and you’ll be disillusioned, right?
Elizabeth Donald·May 9, 2025SilenceInstead, Phillips is talking about the kind of silence that happens when you allow art to fill you.
Elizabeth Donald·Feb 27, 2025True or falseI am in awe of people like Harlan Ellison who could snag a prompt, sit down in a bookstore window and four hours later they have a full…
Elizabeth Donald·Feb 6, 2025Dance with the pageOne of the things I like the most about my writing career is that I write a little bit of almost everything. I’m probably better known for…
Elizabeth Donald·Oct 31, 2024How to survive a horror movie: 2024 editionOnce upon a time, my father the film professor wrote an academic research article analyzing the behavior of horror movie victims in the…
Elizabeth Donald·Aug 21, 2024BookwormWriters sit down and turn ideas into stories. Writers. Not robots. And in order to do that, you need to read. The machine needs fuel.