On the final page of one of my published short stories I mistake a shotgun for a rifle. Easy enough mistake for someone who has never even held a gun. But the error disturbed a ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
When the English language began to emerge, sometime around the sixth century AD, the lexical authorities either forgot, or more likely, never thought of naming its letters. The letter a, for example, has no name. ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
I worked as a book editor for more than 15 years. Then a year or so ago I had a novel accepted for publication and found myself undergoing the same process I had been putting ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Industry news
In my baby book, under the section “Special Talents,” my mother wrote, “Kristen likes to draw pictures and write stories. Her pictures are very good.” What she thought of my stories, she did not say, ... Read More »
April 4, 2008
Every writer is familiar with the aggravation of rejection. And I’m not talking about photocopied slips initialed by an indifferent editor. I mean that really drawn out, knife-twisting kind of rejection where they’ve scrupulously tracked ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
How does a person who has been writing theatre, television, film, and radio drama for 30 years approach writing his first novel? In my case, with an equal measure of abandon and caution. Caution in ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Events
In my early twenties I lived for a year on a small island off the west coast of Ireland. I had planned to live there forever, but things often don’t turn out the way you ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Gevalt! The problems of using Yiddish in a manuscript! So many things to decide: how to pell those transliterated words and phrases; what dialect to use; whether to italicize foreign-sounding Yiddishisms or leave them in ... Read More »
April 4, 2008
I’m a piano teacher. When people ask me what I do, that’s what I say. Until my book was published in May I was secretive about writing fiction. Only a few of my students knew ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
Whenever I’m asked the question, “Do you have any advice for young/aspiring writers?” I have an answer already prepared. “Enjoy yourself now,” I say. “You will never again be quite as sure that the world ... Read More »
April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
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