During a NINC conference in San Diego, I went on a tour of the Hotel del Coronado where SOME LIKE IT HOT was filmed. (It’s a fabulous place. Google it sometime.) It opened in 1888. Thomas Edison strung the lights and the phenomenal landscape architect, Kate Sessions, (1857-1940) did the grounds. I was so impressed [...]

I tweeted about what I was doing yesterday–moving piles of dirt around the yard. A tweet came winging back to me–Any writer who is moving piles of dirt around the yard is procrastinating. Go write. In a way, I guess that’s true. But I can’t write all the time. I’ve got to refill the well. [...]

In October of 2010, something unique and exciting took place at St. Pete Beach in Florida.  Novelists, Inc (Ninc), the only international organization devoted to multi-published authors of fiction, along with experts from all facets of the publishing industry, came together to brainstorm the future of publishing, with astonishingly positive results.* Now Ninc is going [...]

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