Most of my income for 2024 came from ghostwriting memoirs for the niche-famous—people significant enough to have a Wikipedia page, but unless you’re into the thing they do, you’ve never heard of them. These books have relatively few but devoted buyers, subjects humble enough to care that those readers aren’t disappointed by a half-assed book, […]
I refer to Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark as “the sentence-writing book,” though the scope does expand after the first section, ending with general career advice. I’ve gifted dozens of copies and recommended it to every writer I know, whether they’re writing school papers, blog posts, business emails,
THROUGH NOVEMBER 30! Haymarket Books, a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher with a focus on social and economic justice, is offering 10 free ebooks from their catalog. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one
I want to thank the person who recommended Building Great Sentences: How to write the kind of sentences you love to read by Brooks Landon, not because I have much positive to say about it but because now I know who to blame for a lot of copy editors’ bald spots where they’ve ripped out
I worked in healthcare for 20 years. Half of that was in inpatient rehab and a prison clinic. I have always had a core belief that if someone is hurt, I should help them. If they called me a bitch or threw a chair at me or acquired their injury committing an act that would
The Best Time to Wear a Striped Sweater Is All the Time is coming along, slowly but surely. I have committed to the location of pocket holes. (The first sweater I made had no pockets, and every time I wear it, I regret this oversight. Never again!) I’ve resolved to crochet some every day. If
Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace is a delightful epistolary romance novel set in a queer-friendly Regency London, with magic. Reserved, bookish Gavin Hartford has been sent to London, ostensibly to manage some family business but mostly to get him out from under the same roof as his overbearing firstborn brother and his
According to a previous post, I frogged the first 40 rows of Holey Sweater in February, but it’s finished at last. I usually rely on colorful yarn for visual interest, but I switched things up with muted tonal hues and used a variety of stitches for texture. It’s full of mistakes no one will ever
I’ve basically been doing Revision 3.5 on the first half of the book, so there isn’t really “progress” to report. Because I write with continuity (threads of a scene weave through scenes before and after it, and some of those threads extend far), I can’t just pluck out a scene and be done with it.
According to Apple, their customers in the EU are not doing business with them but with me (someone explain why they’re taking 30% if I’m actually selling direct), and therefore my address and phone number must appear on each of my product pages. Needless to say, that won’t be happening. There are expensive solutions to