I have a little tradition on Twitter. Whenever I gain 1000 new followers, I have some kind of contest and give away a prize. It’s a way of saying thank you and having some FUN. Yesterday, I had such a contest. I invited people to submit CRAPFTS.
A CRAPFT is a craft which is crap. The [...]

Once again, I find it has been a month since I blogged. It is not that I am asleep and simply WAKE UP once a month, wander to the computer, type a blog entry in a fugue state, and then return for 30 more days of slumber. No! It is because I have been WRITING [...]

It appears, that I have . . . entirely by accident . . . developed a manifesto. Let me tell you how this happened.
So, because I am an author and am generally presentable and have shoes and things . . . and because I spend a lot of time online . . . I sometimes [...]

Today, someone on Twitter asked me: “After getting a BA in Creative Writing, is graduate school for the same a bad idea?”
I replied that I thought it was a good idea to get experience in something else. To which someone else then replied: “Why? I’m getting my undergrad in writing and getting into a really [...]

The thing about being an author THESE DAYS is that we have the advantage of being in direct contact with our readers. Most authors are reachable one way or another.
The thing about this, of course, is the sheer AMOUNT of mail we get is considerably larger back in YE OLDEY DAYS before the internet. If [...]

Many of you have noticed that I have not posted a blog entry since early January. “Where are you?” you have asked. “What are you doing? DID THEY FINALLY GET YOU?”
Well, for ONE thing, I’ve been fixing up this site! See, parts of the site were wobbly and hard to update. So this entire blog–this entire [...]

Last Christmas Eve, I tried to answer as many questions as I could in a massive BLOG MARATHON that lasted all night. This year, in the countdown to Christmas, I am going to try to do something LIKE that. Throughout the day, I will post ANSWERS to your questions on a rolling basis. But let’s [...]