Books

Free Ebooks For Writers

I was going to have a nice post listing a lot of e-books for writers, but you know what?
There’s a lot of them out there, and there are some nice directories.
So Instead of linking directly to a bunch of books I don’t really have time to review, here’s a list of over places to find [...]


National Novel Writing Month Kick-Off

It’s that time of year! November is National Novel Writing Month. Time to kick yourself in the butt and get that novel out come hell or high water. Tonight you get to write for an Extra hour, and then on Thanksgiving weekend get a couple of extra days off to get caught up. What Are [...]


BIAM! Book In a Month

Well, She Did it.
My 16-year-old daughter got tired of waiting, got tired of worrying about her college fund and decided it was time I started seriously working on my book (Or Books- Like many aspiring writers, I have a whole slew I’ve been working on, but not typing out.)
So, for Father’s Day, she got me [...]


By This Time Next Month, You Can be a Novelist!

Browsing at Barnes and Nobles the other day, I was surprised at the sudden wealth of Get-Rich-Quick-Write-the-Next-Harry-Potter-Bigger-Than-Stephen-King-You-Yes-You-Too-can-Write-a-Book-With-No-Money-Down titles crowding the shelves.
I Think it started with Viki King’s How to Write a Movie in 21 Days, which besides having an awesome title is an actually pretty decent book on screenwriting and beating writer’s block. Hey, it’s [...]


That Rowling! What A Witch!

Most of the blogosphere has been all in a tizzy about Scholastic’s and Rowling’s lawsuit against Van Der Ark.
However, there are a few ppoints that seem to be overlooked by many of these critics:

Rowling owns the characters. You Rent them. Fantasize about them all you want, but only she has the right to sell them.
She [...]