Not religious. Not spiritual.
The advanced review copies of Something Missing have begun to pop up on eBay (thank goodness for Google Alerts). Even though the ARC seal on the book clearly states that…
Morrison victorious
For those who didn’t follow the Tournament of Books I referenced previously, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy beat out Tom Piazza’s City of Refuge for the win. While in college, I took…
More from Vonnegut
Apologies, dear readers, for the lengthy departure, but attempts to complete final revisions to Milo (now tentatively titled Unexpectedly, Milo), combined with the need to complete report cards for my…
Fighting with my agent (sort of)
I’ve spent the last week working on revising my second book using notes from my agent, Taryn, who, by the way, recently launched her own literary agency. It took me…
Source material
I was speaking to a friend who said that his head is full of stories, but he lacks the chops to get them down on paper, lamenting his lack of…
Dream sequences suck
Here’s a pet peeve of mine: Dream sequences in books, films, or television. I can’t stand it when I am forced to suffer through a character’s dream, particularly when it…
Tournament of Books
The fifth annual Tournament of Books began a couple of weeks ago, pitting the sixteen best novels of the year against one another in order to determine a champion. The…
Lies
A recent survey of British readers found that "George Orwell’s 1984 tops the list of books that people pretend to have read in a survey carried out for World Book…
Acknowledgements page
In the American Spectator, Jonathan Black wrote a piece about the Acknowledgements page (or pages) in novels, declaring that “The Acknowledgments page cannot make a bad book better, but it…
Trade paper
The decision has been made to publish Something Missing as a trade paperback original rather than a hardback. Doubleday’s marketing department believes that the book will do better in trade…
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