Now This is Keeping It in the Family
Back in March, I mentioned that football wide receiver Terrell Owens had signed a book deal. At the time, I stressed to his editors the importance of getting the book the first year and gave some tongue-in-cheek warnings of what would happen if they didn’t. Evidently, they didn’t need my warnings since T.O. is now…
continue readingNot Quite The Historical Moment I Had In Mind
When I told everyone to cue up their VCRs for Zinedine Zidane’s final appearance on a soccer field, I had no idea his swan song would turn out the way it did. We’ll never know what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to elicit such a vicious reaction out of the Zidane, but it was a…
continue readingGoebel Interviewed on Misnomer
Joey Goebel, author of The Anomalies and Torture The Artist, recently spoke to Will over at Misnomer Radio. The Anomalies was a Book Sense 76 title selected by the nation’s independent booksellers and was also nominated for the Kentucky Literary Award. Torture the Artist was a finalist for the 2004 Kentucky Literary Award. This rollicking interview covered…
continue readingGotta Be Willing to Do What It Takes
When you’re trying to build a writing career, and establish a connection with nonfiction magazine editors, you have to be willing to do whatever they need, whenever they need it, however they want it. I don’t have a journalism degree, I’m not all that tied into the NYC journalism scene, and I have a day job…
continue readingNew James Rollins Book Released
You might remember the interview I did last summer with author James Rollins. At the time, we talked about his novel Map of Bones. I’m not usually a fan of adventure stories, but this one was fantastic. Epic in scale and inventive in plot, I closed that book and said to a friend, “this guy…
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