Book Review: Fair Peril by Nancy Springer
Fair Perilby Nancy SpringerAvon Books, 1996 Okay, I admit it. Despite (or perhaps even because of) the glowing review blurbs that decorate the front pages […]
Month: May 2005
Menstruation For Men
It’s hard to properly imagine an uncomfortable, aggravating biological condition that affects organs you simply don’t have. It’s probably as hard for your average guy […]
Shaving tips for vampires
“I hate ’em when they ain’t shaved.”— Severen in Near Dark Shaving is very important to the sophisticated vampire. Nothing destroys the mood of seductive […]
Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
The full title of this little book by Spencer Johnson is Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work […]
Writing query letters for fiction or poetry markets
Writing a query letter for fiction or poetry is a bit different from writing a query letter for a nonfiction piece. Short Fiction and Poetry […]
How To Get A Goth Out Of A Tree
Teddy was up on a low limb of the oak, clinging to the trunk and sobbing in terror. His thin body trembled in the cold […]
Movie Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
My husband and I found Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to be a fun film. My mom would have gotten a kick out […]
Movie Review: Underworld
My husband and I rented the 2003 vampire/werewolf action flick Underworld this evening, hoping for a bit of fun, entertaining eye candy. And while this […]
Dealing with rejections from editors
In the inevitable event that you get a rejection letter from a publisher, you should, in the vast majority of cases, not take it personally. […]
Is the publisher just a middleman?
“The publisher is just the middleman!” I’ve heard many an aspiring writer make a statement to this effect. And, really, who can blame them? We […]
What can happen if you accidentally plagiarize
Most of us first encounter the notion of plagiarism while we’re in school. Countless schoolkids unwittingly become plagiarists when they write their first few research […]
Secret (Literary) Agent Man
The Traditional Path To Being Agented When you’re trying to sell your first novel, you’re stuck in a terrible Catch-22: many publishers won’t look at […]