I bid farewell to the hallowed halls of Michael A. Riffel High School yesterday as I wrapped up my writer-in-residency there with some final meetings with individual students. As I work with young writers more and more, I find that my writing advice, as far as technique goes, keeps boiling down to the same few …
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An interview with my agent
I just came across this recent Wild Child Publishing interview with my fiction agent, Ethan Ellenberg. This struck me: WC: How prolific does a writer have to be today to be a successful author? EE: You need to write at least one very good book per year. More is better. I can do that. Can’t …
A word of warning to NaNoWriMo contestants…
…from A.C. Crispin at the Writer Beware blog: “…I know that a significant percentage of the writers who participate in writing novels in November, are going to wind up getting SCAMMED in December, January, February, March, etc., when they submit their novels to scam publishers like American Book Publishers, or PublishAmerica, or scam literary agents …
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