Tag: Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident
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Loosening Up
I tried many exercises in the various writing groups in which I participated before entering graduate school, and working towards earning my MFA. None left an impression, or stuck with me. This is not to say the exercises held no merit. Instead my focus lay severely on learning to write, as in craft a decent…
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Literary Agents on Barnes & Noble and the State of Publishing
I think if Barnes & Noble folds, or something like that, it might be so devastating that we can’t get around it. If Barnes & Noble were to fold, what would happen to all of us? I mean, there’s no way that publishing could really continue. We’ve put too many eggs in one basket. This…
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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…