Originally published on Facebook 1 March 2015. Okay, so David Gerrold did his Facebook essay on writing awards; I guess I’ll do mine. It is impossible to accomplish this and completely avoid self-aggrandizement, so I’ll get that out of the way in the first graf. 1) Just to provide the data, I have been nominated […]
Originally published in somewhat different form on Facebook, 19 February 2014. Something I’ve discovered as a professional writer, with my own very small claim to fame: The folks who come up to me with “a stack” of books to sign are generally not interested in my writing, but in creating items to sell. Frankly — […]
Originally published on Facebook 8 February 2015. Asked of me in my book reviewer function: “How much lead time do you need for a reading copy, for books to review in your column?” Okay. Here’s the math. I review four books per bi-monthly column. Sometimes I stretch to five, more rarely six, if books come […]
