I. Backstories: The Boy with Sad Eyes
I stopped by the frame rental house to invite him to an event planned for kids in his inner city…
I stopped by the frame rental house to invite him to an event planned for kids in his inner city…
I’ve been asked this question a number of times about the protagonist in my novel Absolution. I doubt this is…
Once upon a time, they called this “vanity” publishing. The implication, of course, was that self-publishing was for people who…
Now that you’ve worked your way through part or all of a guidebook and listed potential publishers (see my previous…
No, I’m not talking about self-publishing here. I’ll leave that for another post. Instead, I’ll describe a process that’s worked…
In my last post I talked about the value of an agent. Now here’s the grim reality: the odds for an…
The first time I submitted a novel manuscript to an agent, I received a phone call a few weeks…
I once critiqued a fictional story based on the writer’s own life experiences. When I noted that his dialogue…
“If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you’re…
“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form…
Writing is a tough business. Gratification (publishing) can be long in coming. If and when it does, royalties are…
But isn’t it really about personal fulfillment? If you’re a struggling writer, you’ve probably had someone say this…
Recently, the New York Times Book Review featured two writers asked to comment on the question, “Do critics make good…
I heard Twyla Tharp say that to begin a new work of choreography, she enters a “white room.” Certainly, this…
“If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out.” Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong “Write what you…