by admin | May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s a great way to meet your favorite writers. Writers tend to be a bunch of recluses. With the decline of physical books and brick-and-mortar bookstores–where readers used to attend new release signings–most reader-author interaction has shifted to...
by admin | May 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Writers should be read—but neither seen nor heard. – Daphne du Maurier When I decided two years ago to write seriously for publication (as opposed to writing literary stories that few, if anyone, would ever read), I discovered that a notable chunk of my already...
by admin | May 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Even years after the debut of the e-book, people continue to bemoan the decline of the NY-published hardback and brick-and-mortar bookstores like Barnes & Noble, but plenty of us have come to embrace the many benefits that going digital offers us as readers.* For...
by admin | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
As an avid, but general, reader—and by avid, but general, versus professional reader, I mean that in addition to being a part-time writer, holding down a full-time job (teaching reading and writing to teenagers), maintaining a rewarding marriage, keeping a house...
by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
All genre fiction is built using a set of specific tropes. Some of these tropes are used in every genre, including the genre of literary fiction, and some are essential only to a given genre like mystery or horror. These tropes or story elements have evolved over...
