Miss Snark Nails the Inefficient
The gleefully venomous Miss Snark skewers the publishing industry’s more inefficient organizations today. One of my biggest pet peeves with the aspiring author gig is having to wait for months, even years, for certain journals, agents, and publishers to review your work. And that wait time is even worse when they demand exclusives or refuse…
continue readingEveryone, Meet Beatrice
Actually, if you’re a book-blog reader, you probably already know this fine site. But I’m going to be popping in at Beatrice at least once a week (whenever the slush demons let me out) for some guest-posting. It’s a book-blog in long standing, since 1995, and I’m honored that Ron asked me to help. So be…
continue readingEnough with This Whole “Tell Your Story” Stuff
I’ve been bitching about this for a while now… I’m sick of all these criminals and cretins who, after their screw-ups and traumas, then get a chance to go on television or to write a book and “tell their side of the story.” I’m also worn out with people, who are undoubtedly wonderful human beings, but think they need to…
continue readingHard to be Objective
I was going to try and somehow review, or at least discuss, Larry Brown’s essay The White Coon in the current issue of Field & Stream. This piece was discovered in one of the late author’s notebooks dated 1982. According to the notes, “it is the first true story he ever wrote.” The piece deals…
continue readingWylie Interviewed in Le Monde
Andrew Wylie is arguably one of the three most influential literary agents in the business. And he prefers to keep a low profile so you ain’t gonna see him popping up on a panel at the Serial Killer Romance Writers of Greater Tupelo Mississippi Area Book Conference anytime soon. However, he did grant a rare interview to French media…
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