Prose Editor Amy Wright thanked me for sending my work and giving them the chance to consider it, but they are not keeping my short-short series, “Merely, etc” for publication.

“I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.” Does this line of Gertrude Stein’s help justify-for the pen and paper types-the digitalization of language?

I volunteered for the first time at the San Francisco Writers’ Conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel over Valentine’s weekend and had quite a positive professional experience there.

I know I’m jumping ahead a bit, but there’s limited space available for the 2010 San Francisco Writers Conference February 12-14th at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.

The best route to take to either get critical acclaim or make a living as a serious fiction writer remains the traditional route. It is only the traditional route that affords writers the promise of big advances,