(A shot of Otago Bay from Larnach Castle in Dunedin, New Zealand.) Partly to celebrate our upcoming 20th anniversary in August, partly because the kids have wonderful grandparents who are happy to watch the kids for a few weeks, and partly because I’ve come to believe that these sorts of adventures are good for both…
Casey N. Cep’s article, “The Pointlessness of Unplugging,” published a few months ago over at the New Yorker, is well worth a read for those of us who make an effort to occasionally disengage from what I call the Great and Powerful Hive Mind. From her conclusion: That is why, I think, the Day of…
Astute visitors to my website may have noticed it’s undergone a change. For years I’ve basically done all the heavy lifting for the site myself, but now the tools have gotten so good that it no longer seems efficient. I was also never that good at it; although my day job is working as a…
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you know that publishing is going through some tremendous changes right now, mostly brought on by the rapid rise of e-readers. For writers, this is truly a new golden era of publishing, when we have the option of working with traditional publishers or going direct to readers —…