The Four Phases of Authorship: the thinking process, the writing process, the agenting process, the publishing process. (We will save…
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…
According to Reuters, a Thai man is keeping scorpions as pets to atone for years spent cooking them as snacks…
I love epigrams. The English critic and poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, said, “What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole,…
I have a cat; a very old cat. She is relatively good shape, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to chase even…
Just when I think I have it figured out…. “Everything you can imagine is real.” –Pablo Picasso “Reality is merely…
My daughter just returned from a week of sailing in the British Virgin Islands. All-in-all a very successful trip, I…
Here’s a creative writing exercise for you. Or, if you’re too tired to write after a day of summer…
First of all, when I hear the word tweet, I think of a Warner Brothers cartoon. If you’re old enough,…