WE WON!! PROMOPHOBIA won best nonfiction at this year’s Agatha (Christie) Awards. I’m one of the many contributors to this book. The award is a teapot and I believe each of us will get about 5-days with the award before passing it […]
One of those weird things I do as part of my writer’s life is to learn how to do the things I put in my books. One such skill was lock picking. Mrs. Simon and I took a locking picking workshop for […]
My QUERY LETTERS, SYNOPSIS WRITING AND PITCHING workshop starts May 1st. The call for this workshop came at the suggestion of one of my previous workshop students. The workshop would explore the following: Crafting a query letter directed at agents and publishers and […]
This is the Hungarian version of THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. I had to pull a “J. R. Hartley” & buy the book from a bookstore in Romania but that’s par for the course when it comes to foreign editions. It’s usually […]
My online workshop on Point-of-View writing starts on April 3rd. If you want to learn how to keep your POV straight in your books, here’s what to expect from the workshop and you can sign up here: Can’t decide who’s the best […]
This is my crash helmet from my motor racing days. It was years before I realized that I owed my life to this helmet. During a race, a car spun in front of me and it propelled my car into the air. […]
My ever-popular online workshop on KILLER SUSPENSE writing starts on March 6th. This workshop blossomed out of a piece I wrote for Writers’ Digest and there’s now interest for me to develop into a book. So if you want to learn how […]
My ever-popular online workshop on PLOT THICKENERS writing starts on July 11th. This workshop blossomed out of a piece I wrote for Writers’ Digest and there’s now interest for me to develop into a book. So if you want to learn how to […]
Martin Scorsese caused a little storm when he listed his top 15 films of all time. None of his films made it to my list. So here’s my top 20 films (because I couldn’t narrow it down) and in no particular order: […]
I’ve scheduled my writing workshops for 2023 and they are as follows: PLOT THICKENERS (Starts February 6th) KILLER SUSPENSE (Starts March 6th) SHIFTING POVs (Starts April 3rd) QUERY LETTERS & SYNOPSIS WRITING (Starts May 1st) SHORT STORIES (Starts June 5th) AUTHOR PROFESSIONALISM (Starts […]