Search Results for: The Mail I Get

The Desperate and the Gullible

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Sometimes it seems like there’s nobody more gullible than an unpublished author. Blinded by their desperate desire for publication, they will ignore even the most obvious signs of a scam. Peter Winkler clued me into this article from the Times Union about yet another publishing con…one so obvious and blatant, it’s astonishing that any sensible … Read more

Pros and Cons of POD

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The Sacramento  News & Review ran an interesting, and very balanced, article about the pros-and-cons of Print-On-Demand publishing (ie "vanity presses"). there’s a difference between the POD printing technology–which has many uses–and POD publishing. In recent years, a number of companies have begun to offer POD publishing services to authors who want to see their … Read more

Dick Van Dyke’s Address

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I got this email today: I’m a HUGE fan of Dick VanDyke’s and would like his home address so that I can send him a letter and maybe a Christmas card each year. I also would like to send him a picture of my son, who is also named Dick and ask him some questions … Read more

Ride on My Coat-Tails…For a Price

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There’s hot gossip making the rounds in mystery-writing circles  about the husband of A Famous Author who sent letters to first-time novelists recently offering to sell them blurbs from his wife as part of a promotional "break-out bestseller" package they’ve put together. The services allegedly include having The Famous Author rave about the book on … Read more

Do I Read Everything?

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I got this email today: I’ve written several comments on your blog and you’ve never responded to any of them. Do you read all the comments on your blog? Sadly, no. If a post gets five or six c0mments, I might read them all. But in general, I usually browse the comments on a blog … Read more

“What’s Stupid About It?”

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I got this email today: "Fan fic writers have no deadlines, networks/producers/actors to please, and often have a better grasp on the characters and their history than the tv writers usually because We Are more Emotionally attached." You said that comment is stupid. I don’t get it.  What’s stupid about it? Okay, the email is … Read more

A Day in the Life

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Yesterday was a typical day for me…when I’m not writing/producing a TV series. While dealing with the business of writing (exchanging emails with my editors & agents, watching a pilot for an upcoming staff job interview, arranging a book signing for August, etc.) I worked on writing several things all at once — one for … Read more

Liberty, Justice, and Willem

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PublishAmerica CEO Willem Meiners has written a book entitled PUBLISH AMERICA: THE INSIDE STORY OF AN UNDERDOG WITH A BITE, which he describes as telling the story of "the most captivating pioneers in today’s traditional publishing industry and their victorious legions of authors."  The book also promises to reveal "everything you always wanted to know … Read more