BOOK REVIEW, ‘DOWN SOLO,’ EARL JAVORSKY
Here is the Amazon synopsis for DOWN SOLO, a novel by Earl Javorsky: “Things haven't been going well for Charlie Miner. His work as a...
THE WRITER/EDITOR RELATIONSHIP: PATIENCE
I’d say 95 percent of the clients I work with on book editing projects are filled with impatience. As a writer as well as a book editor,...
CREATING TENSION IN FICTION AND MEMOIR
One of the toughest things to do in fiction or creative nonfiction writing, in my professional opinion, is to create strong, believable...
MY BOOK EDITING PROCESS
I want to talk about my book editing style and process. First off, here’s my background. In a sense, I have been writing my whole life....
JOE CLIFFORD’S ‘LAMENTATION’
I can recommend several books to read for aspiring (or accomplished) writers, that will help you gain a deeper understanding of craft and...
INTERVIEW WITH LORI WINDSOR MOHR, AUTHOR OF THE DEBUT NOVEL, ‘THE ROAD AT MY DOOR’
*** Note: Please also read my new piece about coping with literary rejection at MASH (click here) “The Road at my Door” synopsis...
THE GIRLS (EMMA CLINE)
Emma Cline—27-year-old writer from San Francisco, CA—published her debut novel, The Girls, about the Manson family girls, in June, 2016,...
MY BOOK EDITING PROCESS
I want to talk about my book editing style and process. First off, here’s my background. In a sense, I have been writing my whole life....
David Corbett’s “The Art of Character”: The 5 Cornerstones of Characterization
David Corbett—New York Times Notable author of many novels including Blood of Paradise (2007), Do They Know I’m running (2010), and The...
The “Bread and Meat” of Writing
It has taken me years and years of writing my own novels, stories and nonfiction, not to mention editing countless others’ manuscripts,...
