Congratulations to those hard-working authors who will see their novels on bookstore shelves — physical, digital, or both — in the near or distant future. Whether your book has already launched, will launch within the next year, or you’re still…
E-books are coming. You’ve heard about it at every writing conference from frightened people. They are pouring out of the Matrix, and they are shooting their internet lightning from the Cloud to destroy paper books, burning them away with video…
What do you mean editors don’t think they can sell the epic, decade-spanning horror slash literary mashup of the painting my Grandma found in Albuquerque that carried the soul of a young girl who died in a fire and haunted…
For five seconds, I thought I’d do something a bit more interesting than providing a list of books to read (again). But then I thought, nah. It’s a holiday weekend in both the U.S. and Canada and quite possibly in…
Like a lot of writers, I have a little notebook where I jot down stuff that pops into my head. Sometimes it’s an idea or phrase. Sometimes it’s nothing more than a single word. For instance, the last note I…
Last week, I disagreed with people who said that Pizza Hut’s new pigs in a blanket pizza is the downfall of civilization. Such opinions are subjective. And subjectivity is something we writers know something about. This week, along with other…