The Manhattan Trip, Day Two
As I mentioned yesterday, the main purpose of this New York trip was so my FirstBorn, Sarah, could audition at Juilliard and Carnegie Mellon. Day Two of our adventure, therefore, started early with a...
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Links and Stuff: The 1,000th Blog Post Edition
Yes, ladies and gentlemen–this is it. My 1,000th blog article! That’s a lot of blogging. I know there are people out there who have been blogging longer and no doubt clocked up thousands of pages....
Links and Stuff
Okay, so I liked doing this mish-mashy kind of post last week, so I’m doing it again. And might make a regular thing of it, as much as anything’s really regular on this blog....
I Got the Benefit of the Doubt!
Let me explain. BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT is the debut novel by Neal Griffin that came out last month. Literary agent Janet Reid read the book over Christmas and enjoyed it so much, she offered...
Writing Contest Mentions
If you’re a regular to my little blip of cyberspace (do we still call it that, or is it only old people like me?), you’ll know I enter Janet Reid’s writing contests pretty much...
Flash Fiction Friday
This week’s words from the Random Word Generator are: Reason Brick Cannon Kitchen Menu I’m dedicating this 100-word story to my friends over in the comments section of Janet Reid’s blog. I hope you...
A Tale of Two Writers–and Lessons for Us All
This week saw the publication of Dan Krokos‘s much-anticipated debut novel, FALSE MEMORY (click here for the Goodreads summary). In light of this, I thought I’d take the opportunity to consider Dan’s unusual road...
Some Monday Stuff
A Monday post? Yeah… I’m re-thinking the blog schedule again. Not in a major way, but I know a lot of people are doing this at the moment–balancing blogging with the rest of one’s...
Win an ARC of INSURGENT!!
Since there was a Road Trip Wednesday yesterday, I wasn’t going to post an article today… but I had to let you know about this giveaway at Literary Agent Extraordinaire Janet “Query Shark” Reid’s...
The First of Two Announcements Today!
I’ve mentioned on here before how I like to enter the contests Literary Agent Janet Reid periodically posts on her blog. Well, before Christmas she ran a poetry contest, inviting entrants to write a...
