Thanks to the Washington Post for this shout-out: Susan Wise Bauer’s The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America (2008) should be required reading. (In fact, [...]
We just put this information up at the Well-Trained Mind site, so I thought I’d post it here as well…for anyone who might be interested. The Complete Writer Weekend Workshop A seminar [...]
I’ve just posted my 2012 speaking schedule online right here. So if you’d like to come say hello in person any time over the next year, maybe you can choose one of these fine venues. [...]
Whatever you think of Amazon (it’s saving the midlist novel and destroying the independent bookseller…making the bookstore irrelevant and rescuing book-deprived buyers in rural [...]
This afternoon, I received my author’s copies of the Chinese edition of The History of the Ancient World, published by Peking University Press. The editors at Peking University Press seem [...]
Today’s my last day here; the show goes on for one more day, but I’ll be leaving the booth in capable PHP hands and heading home. There hasn’t been a lot of writing going on. I [...]
We’re here at the Peace Hill Press booth at BookExpoAmerica, the big national trade publishing show that happens every May–usually in New York, occasionally in other cities. [...]
Thanks to the Peace Hill Press team (that would be Justin and Mollie) who came up with THIS brilliant ad for my upcoming middle-grade writing and grammar books and the accompanying creative [...]
In case you’re in one of these places and want to come hear me talk about reading, writing, and other fascinating stuff, I’m adding two dates to my 2011 speaking calendar. June [...]
So yesterday I had to convert my personal Facebook page into a Public Figure page. This means SOMETHING. I must meditate on the deeper implications. But the really shallow, immediate, fun [...]
Normally I try to take a lot of pictures at conventions, but I talked so nonstop to so many people that I fell down on the job. I only managed to snag two photos of oneof my workshop [...]
Some time ago I set up an Amazon Author Central account, after multiple emails from the Amazon Marketing Machine suggested that having an Amazon Author page would rocket my sales into the [...]