Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]
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Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]
Read moreI have a writing exercise for you. I’d like you to produce a short story using the premise “The 102-year[…]
Read moreMany familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because England was once a great sea power, a surprising[…]
Read moreAuthor Chuck Palahniuk (pronounced paula-nick) – author of Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Choke – says he’s close to[…]
Read moreIn 1972, photographer Nick Ut took an iconic picture that helped changed the course of the Vietnam War. It won the[…]
Read moreIn 2012, authors who’d signed contracts with the publisher Harlequin began to notice something odd in their bi-annual royalty statements.[…]
Read moreA fascinating TED talk from Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie … Some of her books: You’ll find another TED talk from[…]
Read moreRejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]
Read moreThat fearsome robot is just one element in the new cover of my book Too Many Zeros, officially re-released today[…]
Read moreDo not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage[…]
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