Alright, men and women. Day Two of Boot Camp! You have your novel idea. Now it’s time to fill it page in and page out with various events that keep the reader’s interest. How exactly do you do that? Novels don’t just spill themselves onto the page (or at least they shouldn’t!). It’s best to […]
Battlestar Galactica
What Writing and Lying Have in Common
I am a terrible liar. I’m bad at platitudes, I can’t tell people I like their writing when I don’t, and I was never able to get myself out of trouble as a kid. Let’s just say that if I were captured by stormtroopers and held in the Death Star and I knew the location […]
Query Deluge!!
Whoa boy am I getting a lot of queries these days. In addition to the 400 or so I received over the holidays, I came in this morning to another 100+ that had accumulated over the weekend. To put that in perspective, last year I received about 110 over a three day weekend, and that […]
The Finalists! (as announced by Dwight Schrute)
UPDATE: VOTING IS CLOSED!! Hey all, if you don’t watch the American version of The Office then this might not make sense. Thanks to Cory Clubb for inspiring the idea. Greetings. I am Dwight K. Schrute, Assistant Regional Manag… fine, Assistant to the Regional Manager, Dunder Mifflin Scranton. I have been… you haven’t heard of […]