A Reasonable Doubt, by Edgar Smith was published in August 1970 by Coward-McCann. The reader cannot begin to read this book before understanding who the author is and the circumstances in which it was written. Edgar Smith was a convicted murderer of a fifteen year old girl in the New Jersey and sitting in solitary […]
Category: Writing
David Gordon’s Excellent Japanese Adventure
David Gordon is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories, “White Tiger on Snow Mountain” coming out this fall. His writing career is off the ground but until a little while ago not exactly soaring. Suddenly all kinds of good once in a lifetime things began to happen to David. I’ll […]
Against Sending Your Blog Readers on a Space Walk w/o a Tether
Page Views We watch the page view stats on our blog because the number of page views are more important than the number of unique visits we get daily. If we have more page views than visits in our daily statistics it indicates that we are successful in keeping our visitors on our page, moving around, […]
Books You Wear and The Mysterious Semi-Viral Tweet
‘Wearable Book’ Lets You Experience Your Favorite Book Character’s Emotions Far Out English Historical Fiction Authors: Castles 101 All About Castles Why You Should Use Images on Twitter and 3 Tips to Doing it Right Comprehensive Treatment of the Subject The Mysterious Case of the Semi-Viral Tweet How did this […]
Can Novel Newbies Learn Anything From Elite Athletes?
This post starts out at the NY Times article by Gina Kolata entitled “Training Insights From Star Athletes” of January 14, 2013. http://nyti.ms/UNpDPE Here’s how Gina begins: Of course elite athletes are natually gifted . And of course they train hard and may have a phalanx of support staff – coaches, nutritionists, psychologists. But they often have something else that gives […]
Gutsy Living and Cochlear Implants Fr Blogger’s Twitter Pal Daily Jan 7
From my daily copy of Paper.li , I choose four articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers. These followers have either created the articles or they have chosen them from their perusal of the internet. In any case, what results is […]
Author’s Media Kit – An Indispensable Component – Reviews, Interviews, and Ratings List
The Whole Megillah in One Place Everyone knows you can go to Amazon and Goodreads to see the reviews and ratings that readers have given your book. What about the reviews that are written on blogs that don’t get moved over to Amazon or Goodreads? Isn’t a rating on Goodreads or on a blog a […]
When is a story not really a story, and who cares anyway?
Story Writing – the Open Door A novel is definitely a story, even if you don’t like it. Maybe it’s not your cup of tea genre-wise. Maybe it doesn’t rise to your estimation of what makes a good thriller. Maybe you just can’t keep reading it. Whatever. The same thing holds for a novella. […]
Interview of Harlan Baker, Actor, Director and Playwright
I’m pleased to have Harlan Baker as the subject for this interview. Harlan is an adjunct professor in the Theatre department at the University of Southern Maine, an actor, a former member of the Maine legislature, a union activist, and democratic socialist. He studied theater at Emerson College and graduated in 1969, and has a […]
In Writing Your Story, “feel lucky rather than clever” – Tom Stoppard
I’m studying a book called “The Weekend Novelist” by Robert J. Ray. I find it engrossing, informative, enlightening. Books like this talk authoritatively about all things having to do with writing, so it seems a good place to look for some answers. I believe stories are stories regardless of the form they take. That […]