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From the Dark Side
I’ve written before (here and elsewhere) about the writing workshop I participated in, fifteen-some years ago. An odd cast of characters, maybe: three writers of poetry and literary fiction then seeking their graduate degrees in English, with an emphasis on creative writing; one writer of comic action stories (think Carl Hiaasen, maybe with a touch [...]
The “Greener” Other Side of the Fence
Agent Jessica Faust of the BookEnds, LLC blog, on “Offering Representation to Published Authors,” seeks to reassure new authors that things could be worse for them: they might have a track record. If a previously published author comes to me seeking representation, I need to, of course, look at the new work to see if [...]
Getting It Out of My System (2)
(Part 1 of this N-part series was here.) Let’s see, where were we… Oh. Right. I’d just posted excerpts from the Prologue to Crossed Wires, my 1992 mystery, and Chapter 1 from its never-published sequel, Trapdoor. And I said that the differences between those two excerpts sprang from “something” that happened in the roughly one [...]
Getting It Out of My System (1)
[In a post a few days ago, I started to nose around my "issues" with writing mysteries, thrillers, and the like. This is the perfect time do something I really don't like to do, much -- to lay out the story behind one of my formative experiences as a writer: the publication, in 1992, of [...]
