All my favorite authors have websites and blogs (you can see a small list of some of my favorites over on the right… it’s a list that will grow). So, even though I’m still in the aspiring stage as I try to get Neutral Zone off the ground and get some...
After seeing all those inspiring Lammy nominees last night, I did the anti-award thing and got some (not totally unexpected) rejection today. I got my official “you weren’t selected” letter from the The Twenty-Sixth Annual Delacorte Press Contest for...
Yesterday afternoon I took some time and went up to the 67th Street branch of the New York Public Library to attend a reading by five YA authors who took part in this week’s NYC Teen Author Festival. Martin Wilson, author of What They Always Tell Us, was the...
I did one last email check, as usual, right before bed last night and there was some good news! The story I submitted back in November for the Nerdvana anthology was accepted. “Adventures of Jake #1” will be included when the anthology from STARBooks Press...
“Writing should feel easy, like a monkey driving a speed boat / Close your eyes… breath… ladle into that barrel of monkeys you call a head and scoop out an image monkey / Now let that image monkey drive a speed boat, and you, you water ski behind it...
Of course with the start of the new year comes the pondering of goals… along with how I did on last year’s goals. Here’s the recap of ’08: Still better fitness: I’d basically say I didn’t do good here at all. We ate out way too...