Category: Articles and Essays
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Kensington Press Sits Out BEA 2009
What does it mean that Kensington Press has opted to sit out BEA this year in New York?
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Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: J. California Cooper and Her Love of Writing
Author, J. California Cooper in her NPR interview makes it clear that her love of writing fiction precedes all else. To the NPR host’s question, “Had you not achieved the attention, the adulation, the critical acclaim…the applause, do you still be a writer?” she says, …I didn’t write for applause.. I’m glad it came… I…
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Writing | Labor of Love or Love of the Labor
So you want to write the next Great American Novel. You sit in front of your computer, hands ready to type, ideas filling your mind to the brim, and you begin to write. What happens next is the difference between a writer and everyone else. (my response to Andrew Sprong’s Blog, Writing is Labor of…
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Write That Story
For anyone who’s tried writing a story, but just can’t get it off the ground. Or you’ve begun several, but don’t seem to be able to continue writing… …perhaps you need a plan. As a published author of two books–one traditionally published (Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident)–the other digitally (The Road to Ibadan) I…
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Blogging Can Improve Your Writing–Even Your Fiction
I recently ran across an article at problogger.net—Six Very Official Ways to Improve Your Writing. While the article aims at helping the blogger improve her/his craft, the suggestions hearken to what we know delivers exciting and engaging language. More importantly, Darren Rowse, encourages us to shift our attitude and approach towards blogging in a way…
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The Worth of an Editor
I recently had to fire an editor with whom I had contracted to edit my upcoming novel, The House. All started out fine, signing the editor’s contract and paying their requested fee. Yet three weeks into the process I was receiving long written assemblages of what amounted to–upon clarification from the editor–the editor’s thoughts as…
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How do you know you’re a writer?
How do you know you’re a writer? I struggle with this question while readying my second book, a novel, The House, for publication in fall 2009. I graduated my MFA program–Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington–in July 2006. The afternoon following commencement I was fortunate enough to open my e-mail and see a publisher’s request to…