I was a striker for the very first youth soccer team ever in my little rural Kentucky town. Although clearly, I wasn’t very good since we didn’t score a single goal until the final game of the season. The next year, I played on the very first soccer team fielded by my high school. I…
My Internet service has been down for the past day-and-a-half. I’m posting this from a Treo, which is a great gadget for staying in touch, but not so great for posting items to a blog. So I’m going to have to hold off on some of the items I had prepared. I’ll post some over…
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.”
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…
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.