By Barbara Falconer Newhall
I first met Jasmin Darznik back in 2006, and right away she presented a problem.
We were in the same nonfiction workshop – it was led by agent Michael Carlisle – at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.
I had dutifully read Jasmin’s manuscript the night before our class – and for the first time in my workshopping career, I thought I had nothing helpful to say to the writer. [Read more...]





