The blurb on the book’s front cover is by Alice Munro, “To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment.” Read it and become enchanted.
Category Archives: Being a writer
Remember me
A bad dream is one way to remember why I write, why not doing it would be torture.
From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher
Acceptance seems like the end of the road but there are always significant events to follow. A friend is dealing with her editor’s broken leg, which will delay her book. Any physical problem with an agent or editor at the publishing house is disturbing. A former agent of mine’s husband fell very ill and sheContinue reading “From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher”
Midnight in Rome
At night the center of Rome is as still as the middle of a remote lake at midnight.
The writer and the laundry
We all have to choose where to lay our sacrifices, and I have lain mine at the feet of my children. The greatest sacrifice was going to work every day, thus missing important events in their lives
Mastering social media
Someone somewhere, an organizational genius, will simplify our quest for connection, and we will be so much happier.
FROM ACCEPTANCE TO PUBLICATION: Dumb Webinars
Steve Harrison has had lunch with a large number of people who have made millions of dollars off their books.
BETWEEN ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION: Prologue
The negatives have floated away. The support stays with me.
Recording my book
In the 1990s I commuted into New York City on the bus. Several times a week my seatmate was Roy Yokelson, an Emmy-winning sound engineer, owner of Antland Productions. We saw each other through some rough times. Roy calls me his “therapist,” and I feel the same about him. When I moved to the next townContinue reading “Recording my book”