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And I’m not scheduled for a full post here this month. One is in the works for March; in the meantime, if you want to read the answers to a bunch of writing-related questions that a fan sent me and that I”m serially answering on another blog, you can read them here. Off to a busy [...] 1-Where do you get your ideas? Various famous author-types have tackled this one with answers as diverse as Schenectady (upstate New York), Utica (upstate New York) and “the world around me”, which can be boiled down to “everywhere, including upstate New York”. The correct answer, then, is “Upstate New York.” If you wish to become a [...] Over the course of the week I spent with Michael Crichton in December, 1993, we talked a lot about writing and craft. This little snippet is from the first day when we talked about how he got started writing and who influenced him. – At sixteen, I was writing for the local newspaper. I was also [...] Ways in which real writing life is not like Castle: until just now, I had actually forgotten that I had a book debut today. No glitzy launch parties, nobody offering me a bosom (throbbing or otherwise) to sign, no staking out Barnes & Noble to see if anybody is buying my book. Definitely no huge standup [...]
My SF action-adventure novel, Beyond Those Distant Stars, published by Mundania Press, recently won AllBooks Review Editor’s Choice Award. In their judgment, the book was one of the eight best they reviewed in 2009, and while there’s no $$$ prize involved, they plan to promote and advertise the novel in dozens of places. If you’re [...] As I write this, I’m listening to the The Very Best of Badfinger on my I-pod. Well, actually, on my laptop, on which I’ve downloaded I-tunes. Had you asked me if I thought this sort of stuff was a possibility when I started writing, I would have probably thought it was a great concept. Beyond [...] |
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