Category: writing

How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • Now, in addition to my blog, I have an author website. For anyone thinking about building such a beast, I honor you and I also say, if you’ve got cash to throw at it, let somebody else build it. That’s about a month of my life I will never get back. That website (the link…

  • This arrived in the email today. The galleys for my book. I know you kids call them ARCs, advance reader copies, but I love the old-school term. It’s piratical and an ocean of excitement, which I will enjoy for a day or two before getting down to the nitty gritty of one last copy edit.…

  • Those sneaky lurking bastards

    Typos, I mean. Sheesh. My novel The Booker Rebellion will be released in November. It has been copy edited many times. Seriously. I spent some years as a copy editor at two of the finest papers in the West, The Anchorage Daily News and The Register-Guard in Eugene. This was the era when newspapers still…