Quick reads
For anyone interested in some fun reading check out: The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine Esquire’s list of the Seven Best First Sentences of 2006 Esquire's…
More excited than me
My book popped up on Amazon.com last week, available for preorder. I have a Google alert set up for my name, and last Tuesday, it alerted me to the novel’s…
Finding the right literary agent
Brian, via email, asks: Can you tell me how the writer-agent relationship works? How did you go about finding an agent? First, please keep in mind that I can only…
Inappropriate language
This evening, I attempted to open an Amazon Connect account, which would allow me to link this blog to the Amazon page where Something Missing will be sold. It sounds…
Supplementary reading
Since you have to pay for the archives of many newspapers, my previously mentioned article, Two Divorces Too Many, which was re-titled by some newspapers and magazines, was difficult to…
Character first
Penelope Pudding (a genius pseudonym) writes: Do your books evolve as you write them, or do you know how they will end in advance? Interesting question. As you probably know,…
Unexpected
An acquaintance of mine met with her divorce attorney today to begin the sad proceedings that will bring her marriage to an end. Included in the informational packet that she…
So it begins…
Greetings! Welcome to my little corner of the world. My name is Matthew Dicks. I am a writer. In the spring of 2008, under the guidance of my remarkable agent,…
