I teach. I’ve taught for 42 years. I’m a member of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. I lead workshops at Bloom and Bloom Trail High Schools in Chicago Heights School District 206. I have several students I work with via the mails. I’ve taught at the World Horror Convention and The Green [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...] Over the President’s Day weekend I will be teaching at the Southern California Writers Conference. Because I am no stranger to this conference, its director rarely consults with me regarding what courses I will be teaching. This week I learned that one of my classes is, “Russell’s Rules to Publishing Success.” Given a choice, I wouldn’t [...] I hate writing, I love having written — that’s not true for me, but some people find the actual writing part such a hurdle that they never get to appreciate having [...] I wrote and scrapped two essays for today’s post. One was a recollection of a humorous holiday incident from my misspent youth, a long day’s sleigh ride into night playing Santa Claus on the disgruntled streets of South Philadelphia in halcyon days of 1985. But there’s more to it than just being chased around my Dad’s [...] I’m not a 13-year-old boy from Western Maine, but I pretended to be one on the internet. That sounds a lot worse than it really is. It wasn’t an undercover sting to flush out predators. It was part of an alternate reality game (ARG) run by Scribner to promote Under the [...] Most writers I know have rituals. These run the gamut from adjusting their desks a certain way to writing by candlelight to setting a glass of perfectly innocent booze on fire before each writing project as a sacrifice to the Writing Ancestors. They may sound silly, or wasteful (perfectly good booze, after all) or unintuitive, [...] I’m a member of a lot of different writing organizations..International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, National Association of Women Writers, Novelists Inc, Science Fiction Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, Horror Writers Organization, and the Writers Guild of Acadiana. I’m probably forgetting one or two at the moment, but whew, [...] |
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