And So It Begins…

Ready and willing… or not, the New Year is upon us. The detritus of the past clings to us, stubbornly reminding us that although the New Year; with its promise of a new beginning, does not mean the end of all the threads of projects unfinished, relationships left unresolved, the hyenas baying at the gates or the woes that plague us ( Read more... )

Several years and millions of words ago, an idea was borne from thought to reality by the efforts of handful of writers who believe in their craft: a place where people serious about the craft of fiction writing could gather and discuss issues close to their heart and relevant to their work.

As every good idea does, it needed a home in a place where ( Read more... )

My Annual Holiday Season (Trick or) Treat: A dozen or so of the best (or worst) Songs ever. Enjoy!

Do You hear What I Hear - The Bowden Beer Bottle Band

Do You Hear What I Hear - The Digiallonardo Sisters (It isn't what you think it is.)

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth - Spike Jones & The City Slickers

I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas ( Read more... )

The Library Phantom Returns! : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR


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I freely admit it! I Hate First Drafts... because they suck!

Whether it's your first or your fiftieth novel or novelette or short story or... It makes no difference. When you're busy writing it, you'll think its the most brilliant and original thing you've done to-date.

... but when the ink dries and you've taken a deep breath, you realise upon re- ( Read more... )

Anne McCaffrey, a wonderfully prolific author of great science fiction, fantasy, and romance
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My friend and fellow writer, Renee Miller, has some excellent observations about National Novel Writing Month and the reasons she does NOT participate in the Thirty Days of Literary Abandon on her Blog, Dangling on The Edge of (In)sanity.


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An article in today's Columbus Dispatch by Meredith Heagney trumpets,

Faith leaders forgive Harry Potter 

"It wasn't so long ago that an orphan boy with a lightning-bolt scar was considered a danger to America's children, at least by some Muggles. Conservative Christians blasted the Harry Potter books and movies as promoting witchcraft and black ( Read more... )