Since most of you, I assume, don’t subscribe to Instore: The Magazine for the American Jewelry Store Owner, here, for your weekend enjoyment, is the back-page humor piece I contributed to the April issue, which arrived in my mailbox just the other day. Yes, it’s a PDF, but I daresay it’s worth downloading.
…on the Clips page. I needed to get the blog updated and running, and couldn’t wait for a couple of my editors to get back to me with some PDFs (and I have no scanner). The files are coming in the next few days.
There. I feel better now.
A lot of very good advice in this interview with two SF writers who published their National Novel Writing Month efforts. Here’s some of it:
James Strickland: All the time. And I got a piece of advice from a panel that Connie Willis did once where she said, “Torture your characters.” If you find that you’re [...]
Robert Sawyer has written an excellent post about getting people to hear about your book. Some of it’s counterintuitive; all of it is dead on:
A while ago, I attended a talk by Cynthia Good, who used to be publisher of Penguin Canada. Someone in the audience asked her what was the first thing she looked [...]
We got some great, and potentially awesome, news this morning at the Moff household. No more to say than that, but we’ll keep you updated.
I don’t want to eat a bullet today.
But I do want to eat a lot of ice cream shaped like a bullet.
Nothing—nothing—NOTHING—is worse than waiting and waiting and waiting for an email to arrive to confirm or deny your worth as a human being.
