The Daily Square – Coherent Thoughts Edition
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The Price Of Books
The first rule of car buying, other than don’t buy a lemon, is that only a fool pays sticker price. Everybody knows that is only the starting point in a long, irritating (“let me check with my manager”) negotiation. Actual prices are often the result of how much the retailer pays versus how much they need to bring in to make a profit. We recently had a conversation where we discussed the rather quaint notion of MSRP — wherein the MSRP was a wink, wink, nudge, nudge concept. The publishing industry likes to put prices — MSRP — on every
The Daily Square – The Husband’s On Vicodin Edition
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On Whining
The fact of the matter is that the people who struggle most with writing are drunks. They get hammered at night and in the morning their heads are full of pain and adverbs. Writing is hard for them, but so would golf be, or planting alfalfa, or assembling parts in a factory. The biggest whiners are the writers who get prizes and fellowships for writing stuff that’s painful to read, and so they accumulate long résumés and few readers and wind up teaching in universities where they inflict their gloomy pretensions on the young. Writers who write for a living
The Daily Square – Booksquare Releases Fewer Posts Edition
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The Daily Square – Too Few Hours In The Day Edition
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On Truths, Self-Evident Or Not
It’s easy to get distracted thinking the stuff you do (like blogging, or sorting your files, or doing a lot of research) will help you write the novel. Wrong. Nothing takes the place of actually writing. Nothing. Get busy. Quit reading this blog, and go write. There’s nothing on this blog that is going to help you finish. Stop reading Miss Snark and go write
The Daily Square – Comic Books Are Good Edition
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The Daily Square – Twins Are Expensive Edition
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Foxhunting and Underrepresented Characters
Okay, before you read MediaBistro’s interview with Danielle Durkin of Random House/Ballantine, we would like to remind you (as if you need reminding!) that very few editors meet their authors on the subway. Durkin also notes this, but sometimes people think, well, it happened once… So did the Ice Age, and you don’t see anyone getting all excited about that coming around again.