They say Edgar Allan Poe wrote on parchment paper, and then pasted the sheets together to make a scroll. That seems messy, and tedious, to me. But pen and paper was all that was available, I suppose, and those rather uncomplicated tools produced an end-product (like Poe’s scrolls) that was, at best, fussy and hard… Continue reading Tools of the trade
You can’t handle rejection!
Man, I thought writing the book was the hard part. But eight weeks after starting in on it, I finally completed my query letter. Sent off a batch of queries today too. And all of that stuff up there? Man, it ain’t easy. But now comes the trickier part. Yeah, I’m talking about the rejection… Continue reading You can’t handle rejection!
Pitching
Writing is the easy part. Not sure where I read that. Not sure who said it. Come to think of it, maybe it was me. The thing is this. When the writing’s done, the heavy work starts. And that’s where I’m at. Looking at all the heavy work I need to do. Starting with “the… Continue reading Pitching
Laggard
What’s the world record for time between two novels? The answer to that question is, I don’t know. But I suspect I’m in the running. Fourteen years is a long time. But fourteen years after publishing my first book I finally my second novel, Rock Kills. Why fourteen years? Hey, how much time have you… Continue reading Laggard