New Writer Beware blog post: It's important to be pragmatic when considering a publishing contract--not just because emotion can lead you into a bad decision, but because the publisher could be gaslighting you writerbeware.blog/2024/07/26/e...
(If you’re a regular reader and are feeling some deja vu at the title of this post, it’s because I’ve published it before, in a slightly different form. I’m updating and re-running it because I’ve got...
It’s interesting that they mention her father but not her writing career. I wonder what she’d think of how influential she has turned out to be…
Wow. What a lovely epitaph.
Editing is an art…
Is #editing just checking #grammar & #spelling? No, it's much more: "[G]ood editors are #technically proficient. ... However, truly excellent editors also follow their #instincts. ... Editing, then, is not just an intellectual exercise but an emotional one too." tinyurl.com/y8f3eup3 #AmEditing
by Andi Benjamin A recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show featured an interview with storied editor Adam Moss. Moss served as editor-in-chief of New York Magazine from 2004 to 2019 and is lauded for hi...
What breed? She reminds me of my border collie red heeler mix, though he was red 🧡
If you see this, post your pets ❤️
😳 I’m thankful for the Queensland Writer’s Centre which loves genre so much that it even runs GenreCon. When I first joined about 15 years ago I was afraid they would look down on me for wanting to write commercial fiction instead of the Great Australian Novel. They didn’t. At all. ❤️
I often comfort myself with the thought that while I don’t earn much from my crime novels due to poor marketing, it could always be worse - I could be writing litfic. 😁
Banana please (mostly for the chocolate sauce)😁
