One Bite at a Time

I tried. I really did. People have told me for years. “Be more of a pantser,” they’d say. “Don’t plot so much. Surprise yourself.” I knew I ...

I terminated the agreement with my agent over thirty days ago, and she didn’t want to represent my most recently completed book, anyway. I c...

I recently parted ways with an agent and have begun trying to place a novel with a publisher on my own. The process is as tedious and frustr...

I finished reading Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know last night. It deserved all the awards it won last year. Tightly written, well paced,...

Ancient Greek playwrights had a simple way to get themselves out of any corner they’d written themselves into: some god, even more bored tha...

My flash fiction, "A Twenty-First Century Hero" has been published on the Powder Burn Flash web site. Thanks to everyone who parti...

Authors have been expected to pick up increasing amounts of the marketing responsibility for their books in recent years. The recent economi...