Today we’re linking to one of my favorite sites ever: the Poets & Writers collection of Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews. Have you ever read the Paris Review interviews? My friend Sasha Troyan (award-winning author of Angels in the Morning and The Forgotten Island) got me into those years ago. Wonderful stuff—interviews… Read more“Linking to the <em>P&W</em> Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews”
Category: Linking to. . .
Linking to the Willesden Herald
No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put at just the right place. —Isaac Babel, “Guy de Maupassant” A convincing lie is, in its own way, a tiny, perfect narrative. —William Boyd, “A Short History of the Short Story” This week we’re linking to the… Read more“Linking to the Willesden Herald”
Linking to Donald Maass
This week we’re linking to literary agent Donald Maass, but even more than that, we’re linking to the free download of his book The Career Novelist. Why? Because Maass has done us all a huge service with this book, and I’d like to direct excellent aspiring writers his way. Read… Read more“Linking to Donald Maass”
Linking to P. G. Wodehouse
Today I’m bringing you one of my all-time favorite writers of comedy: the inimitable P.G. Wodehouse. It’s Friday, and I say, what the hell. I’m taking the weekend off from the publishing world, this madcap adventure in publicity, loquacity, and marketing perspicacity run amock. There is only so much eagle-eyed… Read more“Linking to P. G. Wodehouse”
Linking to the essays A.A. Milne
Now that I have completely polluted your minds with more business advice than you can possibly swallow, I’m bringing you a calming, refreshing mental yoga pose to get you through the weekend: The Essays of A.A. Milne. Milne, as we all know, was a fiction author. In fact, a children’s… Read more“Linking to the essays A.A. Milne”
Linking to Mystery Man On Film
I’m going to institute a new regular feature on this blog called: Linking to. Every week, I’ll find some blog of interest to fiction writers and talk a bit about it for your edification and entertainment. I’m starting with pretty much my all-time favorite writing blog, which isn’t even for… Read more“Linking to Mystery Man On Film”