Last night I submitted my first truly self published book to the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing program. This morning, there it was! Miraculous. It’s self published in the sense that I either took each step along the way personally, or I engineered the step by hiring someone to do what I thought I couldn’t do. […]
Category: Writing
Do Minority Writers Have an Advantage?
American Readers Like Unconventional Characters, but… In an article Amit Mujmudar wrote for the NY Times on May 5 entitled Am I an ‘Immigrant Writer‘?, he explores writing for the American fiction reading world as a minority. Almost immediately he concludes that “a minority author may well have an advantage”. It stems from the American reader’s appetite […]
When Weak Old Work Becomes Vibrant New Work
A good idea is a good idea, period. Right? Yes! When I first wrote a number of short stories and plays, the impetus for writing them was that they represented truth as I knew it. Now, I reread them and find that the development of the idea seems weak. I did a fairly decent […]
Masters of the Craft – Wm. G. Tapply – The Worthy Villain
William G. Tapply is the author of about 40 books, including more than two dozen New England-based mystery novels. Hell Bent: A Brady Coyne Novel is the most recent. Tapply’s handbook, The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing a Modern Whodunit, is used in writing classes and workshops across the country. He has also written a […]
Harlie’s Book Blog – Review of A Bridge to Treachery
This is a review of A Bridge to Treachery that appeared in Harlie’s Book Blog in December 2012. Review: OH. MY. WORD. I’m in love. Lou Christopher is one of the most intriguing, intense and focused men that I have read this year. *sigh* After years in the military he starts working as an investment […]
Writing a novel is gathering smoke: Walter Mosley
WRITERS ON WRITING; For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day By WALTER MOSLEY Published: July 3, 2000 If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are covered by this daily reoccurrence. You don’t go to a well once but […]
An Ode to the King of Writerly Tools- The Thesaurus
An Ode to the King of Writerly Tools http://nyti.ms/Qa1PJ8 A cool article from the NY Times on the subject of the thesaurus. Thanks for stopping by. I’d love to hear any comment you may have. You can share a comment below, register a reaction, or post this entry on your favorite social media website. Sign […]