Have rewritten the opening line to my new novel eight times in 48 hours. Decided now to go into farming.…
My head in the innards of book publication this week, I emerged this morning to the news of Nora Ephron’s…
Forgive me for re-posting this article on blurbing a novel but it’s is well-worth the chuckle. Will have something new…
Neil Gaiman is somewhat of an icon for writers. A man-of-all-trades when it comes to prose, he produces the written…
A key question for authors who are being published through electronic means: What about book signings? Do they exist for…
One hears about writers who put pen to paper (or fingers to the laptop ) for years until they are…
It’s true, I guess. Frank McCourt has moved on. I have been waiting to hear the punch-line, as I have…
Here’s a creative writing exercise for you. Or, if you’re too tired to write after a day of summer…
The top ten most irritating phrases, according to researchers at Oxford University: 1 – At the end of the…
You may wonder about the secret, or not-so-secret, motivations that drive writers. Personally, I always thought most of it lay in validation:…