Conspiracy for Book Publication
The Baltimore Sun interviews B. Brandon Barker, a writer based in Northern Virginia who built a website that “the extremes an aspiring author will go to these days in hopes of getting into print.”
continue readingHarlan Coben Talks Financials
Bankrate has an interesting interview with best-seller Harlan Coben. Seems the thriller author is naturally frugal and is just now being able to enjoy the money he’s made. “I had very lean years at the beginning,” Coben says. “My first Myron Bolitar book, I got an advance of $5,000 on. I was just happy to be…
continue readingMurdered Author Story Continues to Unfold…
The investigation into the murder of reclusive author Allen Chappelow continues to get more and more strange. Now, we learn that his body might have “lain beneath a mountain of debris in his ramshackle mansion for weeks before being discovered by police.” It’s a very sad and bizarre tale.
continue readingEWN’s Lee K. Abbott Excitment
I’ve been meaning to mention this wonderful post about Lee K. Abbott over at the Emerging Writers Network. During a time of year when we typically hear about this celebrity tell-all or that detective thriller as being the must-read books for summer, Abbott’s All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories provides a quality alternative for the…
continue readingMaybe It’s Just Me…
I read this article early today and was perplexed as to how an editor allowed it to be published. But, I didn’t comment on my confusion since it was admittedly early in the morning and I had not yet partaken in my usual intravenous injection of Mt. Dew yet. But now, after the benefits of a full day of…
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