Many of the people I follow on Twitter, and who follow me, are writers. So I thought it would be good to write a post for you all. I have been a writer for only eight years and it was less than a year ago that I finally had a novel worth Read more…
The other day I walked past the main downtown post office and saw a sign in the window that caught my attention. My first reaction was to tweet: Sign at the post office today: “Heroes work here”. As 9/11 approaches it made me think that the PO undervalues the word Read more…
Those of us who are lucky enough to spend most of our time writing know what a phenomenal rush it is to write something and feel really good about it. “Ah!” you think, “he is going to talk about the burden of editing.” Well… no. I love editing. It gives Read more…
Well of course, book publishing is not dead but, without doubt, it is terminally ill with no cure in sight. Taking off my author’s hat, I have been looking at publishing with my business eyes. The publishing industry exists solely to connect the work of an author with the eyes Read more…
I’m not a patient person and I can’t stand hanging about waiting for something to happen. But it is what I have been doing for the last six months… waiting for a literary agent to reply to my query letter and request to see my manuscript. Well, no more. In Read more…