Category Archives: Creative Writing
Language and Politics
The quote of the day comes from Roy Peter Clark’s Help! for Writers. This is an excellent book that gives plenty of practical writing tips from organizing your research to editing for clarity. He also makes an important point about political language.
Get Bliss for Free!
Get my new short story, “Mr. Haley’s Bliss” for free from Lulu.com. In under 600 words, I share a story about a man who finds bliss by savoring an intimate memory. It is my entry in the Lulu.com Short Story Contest. You can download it for your Nook, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or other ePub reader …
“So what’s new with writing?”
Plenty! First of all, you can now buy my novel Offline for your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and many other eReaders that support ePub books. If you buy it at Lulu.com, you can get it for the low price of $4.95. If you haven’t read it, consider adding it to your summer reading list. I’m …
Borders and Licorice Pizza
I look at Borders, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, the same way I look at Licorice Pizza, a favorite music store of the 1970s and 1980s. Both were fun places to shop at, but both fell victim to the economy and changing times. Music stores, like bookstores, were social spots as well as places …
Offline on sale
While I’m working on my new novel, you can now purchase my first novel from Lulu.com for 25% off! Enjoy the novel that readers called: “Wonderfully and thoughtfully written, an interesting and insightful story of our times.” “A superb novel enriched by excellent use of the English language, and it’s worth reading, especially by those …
