What gives?  Yesterday, over on Publisher’s Lunch, http://www.publisherslunch.com/, I read this startling news, then, opening up the NYTimes today, I read it again. 
This woman, Margaret B. Jones (actually Margaret “Peggy” Seltzer), claimed that some entire work of fiction was her true life memoir.  Now, this is the second time (…Or is it the third?) that this sort [...]

Our town has a water problem.  The city is very good at hiding this fact from, both, the locals and potential buyers coming into “one of the best places to live” — hubbub spread by greedy Realtors in cahoots with the Chamber who engages savvy marketeers, their bold, outright lies spread like caviar across the face [...]

I have to say, right off, this is a RANT.  About USPS.  About mail carriers and mail clerks and new rules and all the changes that have happened to what used to be a tidy, pleasant service one never had to think twice about using.
I’ve postponed posting this rant, giving myself time to “cool down.”  [...]

At the last meeting of a local writer’s group, a question came up concerning a young woman’s manuscript — a hysterical… (Er, sorry about that totally non-Freudian slip.)  …historical romance that’s been going the rounds off and on for several months now because there’s a publisher “interested”…supposedly.  Several people  (Not me.  I stayed out of it, just listening, until [...]

So I’m sitting here at my computer, minding my own business, hacking and slashing chunks of dead tissue out of my next selected release when, from out of the sky, drops this new story.  Like ripe fruit, it’s plump, juicy, smells delicious, and makes my mouth water.  Such temptation. 
Dutifully, I take the gift, careful not to [...]