by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 9, 2010 | first novels, my writing, reviews |
The new issue of Contrary Magazine is online with my review of Kim Wright’s first novel, Love in Mid Air. Here’s the first paragraph of the review: As a plane heads down a runway, a stranger reaches for the Narrator’s hand. “Here comes the dangerous part,”...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 11, 2010 | first novels, my writing, reviews |
An Equal Stillness, the debut novel by Francesca Kay, who grew up in South-east Asia and India and now lives in Oxford, was one of the best books I read in 2009. My review of this book is now online in Contrary Magazine’s Winter Issue. An Equal Stillness also...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 16, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, life, my writing |
I thought if I wrote about it here either I might figure it out or maybe one of you would. You see, I’m working on my third piece of fiction where he tries to make an appearance. Which he in fact did last night in Columbus! In a 2001 (early, early) draft of my...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 26, 2009 | craft of writing, essays, life, my writing, shapes |
I was planning on doing a post on that need to write but then had the opportunity to write a Guest Writer article on the subject for The View From Here Magazine. It is online today with the print issue coming out November 6th, I believe. Here’s the first...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 6, 2009 | catching moments, my writing |
For today, I had planned to write a review of the book I finished yesterday, but as I sat down to write, I realized that the piece of fiction I started on Saturday and continued with on Sunday and Monday is the first altogether new piece of fiction I’ve started...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 28, 2009 | my writing, stories |
My story, “The Empty Armchair,” which is loosely based on my first novel, The Painting Story, appears in the fall issue of Contrary Magazine. Here’s the beginning: Being sick has taken away the busy surface of my life. Gone are the errands and the...
