The Aha! Moment
As he was revising his second novel last year, Thad Nodine needed a few weeks of concentrated time to polish the manuscript before turning it in to his literary agent, Susan Golomb. As luck would have it, the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, a writers retreat founded in 2012 and nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern California, had just launched a new residency program for
