Red Room Where the Writers Are

On Wednesday, the day after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake rocked L.A., I banged out for the blogosphere a joking Continue Reading » 2 Comments

A pen. But not just any pen. A Uni-ball GEL Impact 1.0 mm. Black.

In the fall of 2007, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) ran a lengthy essay by Steve Wasserman, a former editor of The Los Angeles Times Book Review, titled “Goodbye to All That.”

For anyone who has ever dreamed of becoming an author, Meg Waite Clayton’s website is a delightful and inspiring place to visit.

Here is a link to an interesting New York Times article about the number of books published every year.

The history of my writing starts with a purse.

Okay. 

 In our last episode Geoff was on the prow of the big ship screaming about running the world. We know what happened to the last guy to do that.

Just for a bit of inspiration, I dipped into Joyce Carol Oates, Continue Reading » 0 Comments

One of the most uplifting stories I’ve come across recently is that of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind. Known as Peggy by her friends, Mitchell became the first woman to cover hard news in the early 1920s for the Atlanta Journal, one of the predecessor newspapers to today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution.