With Sara From Alaska by Shushannah Walshe released today, and Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin being released next week, it makes, at my count, 13 books on the subject available to Amazon customers.

There is no shortage of pro bono work out here for writers and editors. And at some point, we have to say whoa to giving our time and skills away for free. But there are some real rewards to pieces of this work we do gratis

“All writing is some combination of visible and invisible forms, and the combination itself is a pattern that is meaningful to me, the rising and falling of my awareness of and attention to one kind of material.

This was going to be a blog post about the great variety of projects I have on my plate right now: Agenting: pitching a novel to publishers.

I know it’s good to be crazy busy in this economy, particularly when a bit of all the crazy business is for actual cash money.