Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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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.…
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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…
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If you’re pondering whether to join me for a writing workshop on Saturday in Eugene, here are two things to consider: one alarming, the other magical. Because self-publishing is so easy now and because AI makes faking it even easier, the world is flooded every year with new books. In 2025, Publishers Weekly reported 4.2…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 