The Bumblebee Closes Tomorrow!
In between your chocolates and champagne, don’t forget to send in your sweet and fizzy short stories to the Bumblebee contest, which closes tomorrow at […]
In Praise of Stationery
Maybe it’s the same for you, author: I love stationery stores. Once inside, there comes over me a feeling of pleasant expectancy mixed with the urge to guard […]
Using the Lag to Become Superb
A brilliant and successful writer once told me, “All writers secretly wish they were musicians or baseball players.” I don’t know whether that’s as true […]
Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen Keeps Working
As I read Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, I’m delighted, but not surprised, to find that he is a superb storyteller and a beautiful writer. Of course […]
Be Kind to Authors
Whistling in the dark, we sometimes call it, but it’s painful, hearing emerging and establishing writers speak self-deprecatingly of their work. We don’t hear that […]
Recipe for Writing (aka How to Bake a Perfect Muse Retreat)
Take one part beautiful island in BC (I recommend Bowen Island, the birthplace of Pulp Literature) and one part historic lodgings and add a gourmet […]
The Writing Life: All Systems Go
We’ve got to have great big goals to get us out of bed in the morning. But we need to set systems into place in […]
Publication Platforms for Writers: Fifteen Minutes Outside the Hermit’s Cave
Whether we publish through traditional means or independently, we’ll most likely want to think about creating a platform to support a writing career connects us […]
North Pole Blue
A Story by Bob Thurber This Christmas tale comes with a bite, as all Bob Thurber stories do. For more, go to bobthurber.net, and look […]