3.14.20

Inspiration & Perspiration:Danielle Trussoni’s Newsletter March 14th, 2020   “Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison Good morning from the writing cave, where I am reeling from a week of upheaval. My novel The Ancestor is out in four weeks, and most of the stops on my book tour have been cancelled. Literary Orange in California, The LA Times Festival of Books, and a reading …

2.1.2020

“Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison Hello from the Writing Cave, where I am hard at work on my column for The New York Times Book Review. As many of you know, I write about gothic, horror and dark fiction for The New York Times four or five times a year. While there are only between six to eight books reviewed in …

1.18.20

“Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison  Hello from the writing cave, where I’m back to work after my week teaching fiction writing in Newport at Salve Regina’s Newport MFA. I returned home on Sunday, and it took a few days for me to get back into my routine. For those of you who have been with me for a while, you know …

1.4.20

“Genius is 1 Percent Inspiration and 99 Percent Perspiration.”– Thomas Edison Hello and Happy New Year! It is a new year and a new decade, and while you may not take much stock in such things, this is generally considered the moment to create new habits and patterns, to decide to change something that isn’t working for you, to begin something new and close down something …