The author reflects on the satisfactions accrued from giving back I find myself doing a fair amount of mentoring for young writers these days. It makes me happy to be able to share my knowledge, experience and an occasional opinion with people who have a keen interest in becoming writers and in some instances editors. […]
That’s all you get tonight, and that’s a good thing. Anything I really want to write about will easily take you over half an hour to read and – well, who knows if we’ll grow a degree or two closer or not for the sharing? I feel rather purpose-free these days, which often happens in […]
What can we learn from the simplicity of yesterday’s marketing techniques? I’m at my writing retreat in Florida, where the sun shines most of the time and the grass grows all winter long. I walked out to my mailbox the other day and saw a piece of something that didn’t look like it had fallen […]
A very brief summary of what I’ve been up to in three parts Bridge Across the Ocean has gained its sea legs. If it were a paper boat – which you kinda could say it is – I, the author, have set it upon the waters and given it that little push to get it […]
If you ride a bike, as I do, you might be interested to know we ride one of the most innovative machines in world history. Bikes became popular in the 1800s because of a shortage of horses caused by – whoa! would you believe a volcano eruption? – and henceforth were called “hobby horses!” Before […]
Full disclosure: I’m not in Boston but rather in Florida, but nevertheless I attended the Independent Publishers of New England 10th Annual Conference in Boston this weekend. As I’m sure you’ve figured out, it was virtual. Online. A Zoom conference, yes, but hands down the most exceptional Zoom conference I’ve yet attended. First of all, […]
An invitation to join me in a great month of novel-writing Several years ago I was working on a novel about this same time of year. I’d begun it quite a few months earlier at my home in Boston, but at the time I was happily — if not somewhat chilled — writing from a […]