11/23/15 ERIC D. GOODMAN INTERVIEW BY SONIA LINEBAUGH
I love traveling by train, ensconced with strangers boarding and debarking according to some mysterious and personal trajectory. So right from the start I was intrigued by Eric Goodman’s Tracks, a novel in short stories about travelers on a train headed from Baltimore for Chicago. (Continue Reading)
12/1/14 — BREAKING BAD DIALOGUE: BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TALK FOR
You’ve probably heard the advice before: be careful who you talk to. But when dealing with dialogue, it’s even more important to be careful who you talk for.
When putting dialogue into the mouth of a character, it is important to make sure they speak the way that sort of character would really speak. (Continue Reading)
11/29/14 — OUR DECEMBER 1ST GUEST BLOGGER IS ERIC D. GOODMAN
Writers and readers know that good dialogue is crucial to a novel’s success. It helps define characters, moves the plot along, and adds credibility to the story and setting. Bad dialogue, on the other hand, will stop a reader in his or her tracks. Guest blogger Eric D. Goodman will examine some of the secrets of good dialogue in this space on December 1. When he’s not blogging for Late Last Night Books, Eric writes about trains, wombs, and animals gone wild. He’s the author of Tracks: A Novel in Stories and Flightless Goose, a storybook for children.