Tag: fiction
member name: Patry Francis
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . .
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . .
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . .
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September 08, 2007 11:38 AM EDT --
Okay, John Stanford probably wasn't talking to writers when he revealed his secret to success.
He probably wasn't thinking about how to create unforgettable charcters, or how to make your screenplay . . .
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September 15, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
The muse and I have struggled mightily this summer. In the spring, things were looking great! I wrote up a synopsis to a new novel and sent it around to a few friends. All agreed (as friends . . .
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April 12, 2007 10:54 PM EDT --
In the not so distant past, authors were expected to do two things: 1) lie on the grass in the shade, and stare up at the sky with their hands behind their heads while they dreamed up stories. And 2) . . .
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September 19, 2007 12:15 AM EDT --
Many authors say that publication day is a bit of a letdown. They may not have expected bells ringing in the square, or strangers crossing the street to ask for an autograph, but they expected--well, something. . . .
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November 01, 2007 11:33 PM EDT --
Every year in November, an increasing number of word-intoxicated, aspring novelists, commit to the fun, the madness, the sheer exhilaration of trying to produce a novel in a month. If you're a writer, . . .
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February 08, 2007 01:25 AM EST --
Some of the most gratifying e-mail messages I’ve gotten about my debut novel have been from readers who contacted me to complain. A gratifying complaint? Sounds like an oxymoron, and usually for . . .
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February 18, 2007 01:43 PM EST --
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There was so much talk about the new music teacher before she arrivedthat her coming was almost anticlimactic. However, I would soon learnthat Ali Mather never allowed herself to be upstaged--not . . .
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January 15, 2006 10:36 AM EST --
One of the most disturbing thing about the whole James Frey brouhaha this week is that the book that sold 3.5 million copies was turned down by nearly every major publisher when it was offered as fiction. . . .
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