By popular demand, here's my list of books for those of you who are good at spotting typos and spelling errors and wonder if there's a career for you in freelance editing or proofing. Check out your skills first, and then develop them more fully. You can do a lot with these books, after Read More
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Mystery writer Michael Connelly on newspaper novels
May 29, 2009
In Michael Connelly's latest thriller, The Scarecrow, Connelly's hero Jack McEvoy is forced to take a buyout. What other novels about reporters and reporting does Connelly like? Read More
"$35,000 is the new $75,000," quotes Harper president
May 27, 2009
"...Crains notes that last week's auction for the story of Capt. Richard Phillips, the man who saved his crew from pirates and was rescued from his kidnappers by the Navy, "drew top bids of around $500,000--half the seven-figure advance it had been expected to fetch." There has been no deal for the Britney Spears' Read More
Twitter, Unhub, and SreeTips
May 21, 2009
Nothing like social networking to suck away time. Sree Sreenivasan's page on Twitter (he's one of the few people I follow) led me to UnHub Offers a Simple Way to Showcase the Online You as Read More
Entering the room called "Remember"
May 16, 2009
A funny thing is happening to the men and women who take my Life Stories and Legacy Writing course at the Writer's Center in Bethesda--especially those who keep writing and reading their stories aloud to each other in sessions I hold for the "graduates." Read More