Top 5 and Why: Current Fatherhood Books
1. The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More Bruce Feiler’s “Secrets” tops our…
Memo to the Future: 3 Mind-Bending Publishing Books
So is print really dead? Is it going to die anytime soon? 1. Post-digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 In this post-digital age, digital technology…
A Movable Innovator’s Fest: 9 Essential Experiments and Game Books
A cornucopia of gaming and literature. The first five are literary, the final four represents a broader spectrum of current cutting edge and theoretical approaches. 1. Many Subtle Channels:…
The Next Big Thing
Apparently, the idea of this whole Next Big Thing thing is to interview yourself about your current or next book, mention the person who tagged you,…
Literary Chops and the Status Quo
Okay, so Hanging Chad hasn’t hung it up. Just gone through an identity crisis. Yes, another one. Who’s counting? But these internal tectonic shifts are somehow…
Self-Pub? Enter Simon & Schuster
I’ve written a good bit recently about my optimism in the future of publishing. Like most people, I love it when walls come tumbling down. Nothing…
Novels: The Importance of Ending
As I’ve written and re-written the ending to The Director of Happiness again and again, I’ve been thinking a lot about endings for novels. As they’re…
Word Count: Helpful Tool or Insidious Device?
When it comes to a first draft, for me there’s nothing like a good Word Count taskmaster sitting at the bottom of my Word document, chiding…
Joe Meno Does His Thing in The Great Perhaps
Joe Meno broke onto the literary scene at the auspicious and tender age of 24 with the coming-of-age novel Tender As Hellfire. Now with the publication of The…
Tom Perrotta’s The Abstinence Teacher
Like many, I first learned about Tom Perrotta from the movie, Election. Was Reese Witherspoon hot in that thing, or what? It came out in that…
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