Tag: novelist
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December 05, 2009 04:38 AM EST --
For those of my friends wanting, no begging to see it..... I have a bit of it here for you, just a taste, no matter how bitter, this is what you wanted, the unleashed version of my unedited, unrefined, . . .
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December 03, 2009 08:00 AM EST --
Not only did I do it but WE DID IT, I belted out the ugliest, nastiest, most unedited, unrefined, distasteful, written backward upside down and sideways novel and it was my first and all mine!
Now come . . .
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January 27, 2009 01:59 PM EST --
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27 2009
American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels RABBIT, RUN (1960), RABBIT REDUX (1971), RABBIT IS RICH (1981), . . .
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May 04, 2007 12:40 AM EDT --
The first booksigning I did was at the New England Booksellers’ Association. I appeared in the Penguin booth, which gave me a terrific opportunity to meet some of the local and national sales people . . .
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July 19, 2007 10:44 PM EDT --
For a long time while I was in between novels, I saw the world in blog posts and Gather articles. Everything and everyone around me was part of a grand and unpredictable tale that might be written about, . . .
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . .
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
Because writers are essentially people who live and die by the power of imagination, we tend to dream extravagantly, wildly, sometimes impossibly. But that’s all right. Dreams are our task masters . . .
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June 14, 2007 01:27 PM EDT --
As some of you know, I am in the process of writing my first novel. Despite the fact that I have earned two college degrees, this is probably, NO DEFINITELY, the most difficult academic endeavor . . .
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September 15, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
The muse and I have struggled mightily this summer. In the spring, things were looking great! I wrote up a synopsis to a new novel and sent it around to a few friends. All agreed (as friends . . .
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January 06, 2008 06:37 PM EST --
On Monday, January 21 st at 10 p.m. ET, bestselling crime fiction writer Jonathan Kellerman will reveal his favorite true crime story on Tru TV's series "Murder By The Book." Find . . .
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November 27, 2009 05:10 AM EST --
I did not win silver or bronze or gold,
I did not win fame or a hummer so bold,
what I have won I can not replace,
I have won satisfaction and a smile on my face, . . .
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September 05, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
Saturday Writing Essentials 9/5/09: Write From A Position of Strength
Prompt for the week :
Write a small piece, prose or poem, that affirms your creativity, Write from a position of strength. . . .
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May 02, 2009 09:15 PM EDT --
Being the all around assistant, typist, researcher, and fact checker to one of the most poplular western authors of all time, J.A. Johnstone learned from the master, Uncle William W. Johnstone. . . .
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . .
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March 30, 2007 02:59 AM EDT --
Sometimes I'm embarrassed by the number of how-to-write books I've accumulated in my life, and by how often I still consult them. Shouldn't I have graduated by now? Do I still need to turn . . .
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April 12, 2007 10:54 PM EDT --
In the not so distant past, authors were expected to do two things: 1) lie on the grass in the shade, and stare up at the sky with their hands behind their heads while they dreamed up stories. And 2) . . .
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April 26, 2007 09:27 PM EDT --
Some authors have made crafting a novel around the latest hot topic their particular specialty. The first one who comes to mind is Jodi Picoult. She has written engaging and deeply felt stories about . . .
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May 18, 2007 01:26 AM EDT --
One cliche about the writing life says that lots of people want to have written, but few want to actually sit down and write. After conducting my own experiments in creative procrastination for many years, . . .
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June 13, 2007 12:40 AM EDT --
Two weeks ago in New York, I had the privilege of appearing on a panel at the Backspace Conference. It was my first experience at a writing conference, and one I'd recommend to anyone in our solitary . . .
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