by Peggy Williams | Apr 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sometimes research for a book can take an author on a most interesting journey. Last week when I was in Boston my daughter, a librarian, told me about a series of brown bag poetry readings happening at the Longfellow House in Cambridge in honor of NationalPoetry...
by Peggy Williams | Feb 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
My sister-in-law and mystery-co-writer, Mary Joy, had an opportunity to attend an author event at Madison’s own Booked For Murder this weekend featuring local mystery writer Maddy Hunter. Mary Joy was so enthused about the experience that I asked her to write a...
by Peggy Williams | Feb 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
I discovered the delightfully unique detective series, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith several years ago. The heroine, Precious Ramotswe, is a one of a kind detective. The stories, set in Botswana, Africa, move languidly through the...
by Peggy Williams | Feb 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
Saw an awesome play this weekend: A Thousand Words, scripted by Madison playwright Gwendolyn Rice and produced by Madison’s own Forward Theater Company. The tease was a stash of photos taken in Havana, Cuba in 1933 by Depression era photographer...
by Peggy Williams | Feb 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
I tend to be impatient with fiction. I can’t put a book down without finishing it, so I get impatient when a book is just okay and I wish I was reading something else. At this point in my life I read a lot of non-fiction. I think it’s likely because...
