People ask me about getting published. Usually they are asking for themselves, but sometimes they’re asking for a friend or family member — somebody who’s written a memoir or a family history. The stories are always worth telling. Friends who braved war zones to help children, a grandparent’s diary of farm life in early 20th …
A few people who’ve read Mamba Point have emailed, PM’d, or even come to my house to tell me that the Millennium Falcon is a wingless ship, in reference to the scene (minor spoiler!) where Linus unpacks and discovers that his model ship is broken. I wanted to set the record straight.
“[I]f I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it” – Huck Finn I am putting the spit-shine on another book and sending it in. Finishing a draft makes me giddy; finishing a final draft (in this case, copyedits) makes me reflective. Here’s another book that, once …
This article appears in a different form in the book Dear Bully I was the new kid seven times between first and twelfth grade. In every year but one, I was the smallest boy in my class. Not only was I smart, I was a smartass. I made fun of other kids when they used words …
“Go, little book!” – Robert Louis Stevenson The day I closed the book deal with Knopf nearly two years ago, my wife and I went to a baseball game. I don’t remember who the Twins played or who won that night. I do remember standing outside, waiting for the doors to open.
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