Music critics: A dying breed?
It occurs to me that the music critic is a relatively useless profession, providing the reader with meaningless information fairly regularly. Theatre and movie critics can help you decide if…
Write like Palin!
Slate is hosting a writing contest in which readers are asked to write like Sarah Palin. Brilliant. I wish I knew who at Slate should be credited with this idea. …
internet
In reviewing the copyedits of Unexpectedly, Milo, I was saddened to learn that the word Internet still requires capitalization. Why? Can we please agree to stop the insanity? The internet…
Waiting is the worst
My favorite literary agent in the whole world (and one of my favorite people in the world) is Taryn Fagerness. I am proud to call her my agent and my…
Tackle football one more time. Please?
The previous week has been quite interesting in terms of my athletic accomplishments. Last Sunday, I played nine holes of golf and beat my friend, Jeff, for the first time.…
New website up and running
My new author website debuts this morning at matthewdicks.com. Everything you might want to know about me and my books, including a link to this blog, can be found there. …
I hope he’s right
Sometimes, I worry that I might have entered the publishing world at the wrong time. Falling book sales, an unsettled eBook market, and the decline of the independent bookstore have…
Hoping for disaster. Again.
I plan to watch Oprah with my wife this evening, a talk show I never usually watch. Elysha recorded Oprah’s interview with Sarah Palin, and I’ve been waiting to hear…
Happy to be alive
Yesterday, I was interviewed by a reporter about Something Missing and my life in general. She was surprised to hear about the many things that I manage to squeeze into…
Uniformity be damned!
I find the degree to which authors differ in their approaches to writing utterly unique. Alexander Alter of the Wall Street Journal has collected remarks from various leading authors about…
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