In June of 2019, I resigned my nine-year-long membership in Romance Writers of America. Here are my reasons: A writers’ organization’s purpose is to support and inform writers regarding their industry. Romance Writers of America has been commendably diligent in this purpose for many years. The organization has had a hand in the successful careers […]
Usurping Voices: RePost from Everwriting WP
Writers are arrogant pretenders. We freely usurp identities, characteristics, ideas, thoughts, voices of people we imagine as characters in our books and stories. These are all part of our craft—our toolbox—of storytelling. We step over the boundary between reality and fiction when we decide we also have the right, indeed the obligation, to speak for […]
Re-Post: Something Wicked This Way Comes & Why Writers Could Be in Great Danger
I am reposting this blog from Kristen Lamb because she has written about issues that are so critical to writers and citizens that I hope all my readers will have an opportunity to read this and think about what she has said. Something Wicked This Way Comes & Why Writers Could Be in Great Danger. My […]
Fahrenheit 451 Revisited
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury’s classic novel of book censorship) is back with a vengeance. Whatever you write, this will affect your future in this entrepreneurial industry. Below are posts you should read if you are self-publishing or care about your freedom of expression: Indie Reader gives a good explanation of the activity on WHSmith, Amazon and […]