September 2022

Hello from the Writing Cave, where I’ve been reading over my Dark Matters column, “In an Abandoned Country Church, ‘Strange Goings-On’,” published in The New York Times Book Review this past weekend.  If you haven’t read it: take a peek. Sorry about the paywall. If you can’t get in and want to read it, send me a note and I’ll email you …

August 2022

“Work is more fun than fun.”– Noel Coward Hello from the Writing Cave on this first Monday of August. It’s the time of year when many of my friends are on vacation. My parents went to Scotland and Norway, and my husband’s family is at their summer place in Brittany, France. While I’m all for spending a week at the …

Danielle Trussoni’s July Newsletter

July 2022 Newsletter Hello from the Writing Cave, where I’m busy at work on my new book. If you’ve been part of this newsletter for a while, or if you listened to my podcast Writerly back in 2017-18, you probably know that I have my own way of writing a first draft.  First, I always write my first draft by hand. I …

Danielle Trussoni’s June Newsletter

June 2022 Newsletter Hello, Thank you for opening my newsletter. It’s great to see you here. It’s a minor miracle, with so much mail hurtled at us, that we get to spend a few minutes together. It means a lot to me that you’re taking time to hang out and hear about what’s going on in this writer’s life.  First …

Danielle Trussoni’s May Newsletter

May 2022 Newsletter “Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”  ―Colette Good morning from the Writing Cave! As you may know, I’m currently living and working in the magical city of San Miguel de Allende Mexico. It is an extraordinarily picturesque place, one filled with hidden gardens, shady stone terraces, and lush parks filled with palm trees, flowers, and …

Danielle Trussoni’s April Newsletter

April 2022 Newsletter What’s happening with me…  Hello from the Writing Cave, where I’m busy revising my new novel, The Puzzle Master, which is coming out next year.  If you missed it, last month I announced that Random House will be publishing The Puzzle Master, a literary thriller that revolves around an ingenious puzzle constructor. It’s coming out in June of 2023, …

March 2022

March 2022 Newsletter “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”  ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca It’s been an exciting time here in the …

February 2022

February 2022 Newsletter Hello from the writing cave. Today is the first day of the Year of the Tiger, a new moon, and one of those days that seem numerically perfect: 2/2/22.  The first day of the Year of the Tiger is February 4th, and so there are still a few more days left in the Year of the Ox …

January 2022

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter January 2022 Newsletter “My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947 Happy New Year! Usually these new year newsletters are …

December 2021

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter October 2021 Newsletter “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” — Thomas Edison Hello from the writing cave! When I was growing up (I was born in Wisconsin), December meant snow and ice, fires burning in the fireplace, lots of baking, snowmen and slush and ice skating. But In San Miguel de Allende, …