EJ Ruek’s The Grimace and The Giggle

Moving, I’ve discovered, is tough on writers and their novels — at least on this writer, anyway. Finding the rhythm, getting back into the routine, and finding “the zone,” is difficult in a fresh, new environment, especially since we’ve still not got a solid household routine.
I’m finding it terribly difficult to return to work-in-progress [...]

Scott Heim reads from We Disappear at last reading at Chelsea
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Part 5

Part 7 (Conclusion)

Anyone who practices a self-defense art and/or wields a weapon (gun, knife, sword, club/cane/staff) knows “ludicrous” when they read it. I just speed read a book with so many absolutely naive “fight scenes,” that the genre should have been slap stick comedy, rather than a supposedly serious commercial read. I won’t give out [...]

IN HER POST of March 30, 2008, Lori Perkins of L. Perkins Agency suggests that to get a major New York publisher interested, authors need to be able to guarantee at least 25,000 copies of their book will sell.
“…every book has to be perfect (not too long or short and well crafted) and come with [...]

Well, having thought long and hard on Janet Reid’s post of March 30, 2008, I think my best option is to finish the S.L. novel, and shop it instead of the recently completed T.W. or the nearing completion T.V.S. That said, I probably ought to email the agents with T.W. and pull it from [...]

She didn’t fit — not anywhere.  Not with the nerds, though she got straight A’s like they did, wore glasses…like they did, and could beat them at chess.  She didn’t fit.  Not with the sports, booze, ’n sex crowd, at all.  Certainly not with the druggies.  She didn’t fit in anywhere. She was The Loner — alone [...]

Well, it’s official.  I know without a doubt which novel will sell first.
 
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 MEANWHILE, here’s a book that looks interesting that’s due on shelves April 15th, 2008
The Atlantis Prophecy

An author friend of mine asked me how it is that I can work on several books at once.  He suggested that, perhaps, I must surgically trisect my brain.  Well, no.  I just have (at the moment) three muses, one per active project.  And each one dictates what we’re going to do to their work [...]

One of the nice things about novel writing is that, when I have a good, solid draft or book outline/synopsis, getting a work into publishable form is a lot easier for me than it is, say, for someone who’s trying to “slam a home-run” from the get go.  I have all sorts of luxury to bend, fold, spindle, mutilate, warp, [...]

People discover I write, and that I do it full time. Instantly, they start dragging out their personal histories, hoping, even begging me to write it as a family saga or “the life and times of….”
“Ah, I write fiction, not memoirs or biographies,” I tell them.
They nod their heads, eager for me to snap up [...]