MS Bookstores Destroyed
Publishers Weekly continued their investigation into the status of bookstores in Louisiana and Mississippi and received unfortunate news yesterday. Hurricane Katrine inflicted irrevocable damage on Susan Daigre’s Bookends Bookstore in Bay St. Louis, MS. Also destroyed was Pass Christian Books in Pass Christian, MS, run by Scott Naugle and Richard Daley. “Both of those stores…
continue readingInterview: Billy Sheehan, Musician
The discussion of just getting started writing, don’t wait, don’t talk, just jump in, is a perfect segue into this week’s interview. I thought it might be interesting to talk to artists in other art forms and see how their lives, frustrations, and aspirations parallel those of authors. I’ve always been a guitar lunatic and…
continue readingMore on Mr. Koch
After my rant yesterday about all the formatting in The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop by Stephen Koch, a thoughtful and considerate reader thought I overreacted and that there is a tremendous amount of good material in the book. While I still do think the formatting and emphasis on emphasis is overkill, the reader’s polite comment…
continue readingGulf Coast Bookstores and Hurricane Katrina
Of course public health and safety is of far more importance right now than soggy books as residents and officials struggle to deal with the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. But of interest to the bookish folk, Publishers Weekly did make every attempt to learn the fate of bookstores in the New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf…
continue readingThe Trials of Freelancing
The “gang” at MobyLives has been on vacation for August, but there is a GREAT “column” this week called The Freelancer: Going to work in your pajamas is great … except when it’s not … written by Chris Rodell. He discusses BOTH THE POSITIVE AND THE NEGATIVE aspects to being a freelance writer and the…
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