I don’t know why I’ve been thinking so much about the passage of time lately. There’s no good reason (or at least, no single reason) for it. I just get on philosophical jags now and again, and recently I’v […]

These days, authors are expected to do most of their own promotion when a book comes out, especially if they are publishing with small presses. We design our own swag, set up our own interviews, and toot our […]

Love it or loathe it, you’ve probably been asked to use Google Docs at some point in your life, and you’ll probably be asked to do it again.
Some professional editors refuse to work in Google Docs. The […]

Since January of 2021, my dear friend Sharon Fagan McDermott and I have been writing a book together. It’s a collection of essays, each on a different element of writing. Now, when we started this project, there w […]

Writing is personal. It is. This is especially true of creative work, in which a writer bares their soul in 12-point serif font, but even academic writing, which is a record of one’s thought processes, d […]