Word count vs. page count
A reader writes to ask: I've been speaking with an agent who has expressed keen interest in my sci-fi/humor novel, and what she's telling me is that while she really digs...
NovelsA collection of 24 posts
Word count discrepencies in novel submissions
A reader writes to ask: I've been writing a novel over the past year, and with the help on your site as well as a few other sites, I've been converting it...
The book of the long new year
Many of you may have heard already, but John Klima has started an online book club dedicated to reading and discussing all twelve volumes of Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle over the course of this...
On lying, and lying artlessly
Longtime readers may recall me railing against James Frey and the phenomenon of the invented memoir a couple of years ago. Rather than chilling the memoir marketplace, though, Frey was merely in the vanguard of a...
Blue Heaven 2007 Raunchy Limerick Challenge
I finally made it back home yesterday to my lovely wife and fuzzy dog after eight days away at the Blue Heaven workshop. I'm delighted to be home but nostalgic for the workshop. It...
More of that Blue talk
Is it possible to be nostalgic for something that only happened a week ago? █████ and I were sitting out back in the dusk last night, me with a beer, she with a cigarette, the dog with...