World Fantasy Convention is coming up this week, so it’s time once again, dear introverts, to talk about socializing. I see the look on...

How do we become fiction writers? What do we need to know? How do we learn writing it in the first place? Answers abound: schooling,...

Friends, save yourself a bunch of time: days, months (in my case years!) of flailing in the direction of getting your novel published....

Sometimes it’s just dumb luck. You stumble into an obscure writing class and the instructor shows you God. You meet an author who for...

I was very surprised to hear crime novelist Elizabeth George say one time in a speech that she avoided writing novels for years, and only...

Two days ago I learned that City Without End is a finalist for an award, the 2010 Endeavour. It’s given out for a “distinguished Science...

10 Tips to Building Relationships What do relationships have to do with writing? Plenty. In your writing career you will have...

Today I’m thinking about the mantra that coaches and writing teachers preach: Dream big. Aim high. Never let it go. Visualize success,...

In the opening installment of my ongoing series on Writing 101 for Introverts, I explained what introversion is and is not, and why we...

Don’t all pile on at once. I know you love your critique group, and maybe you’re right–but I have a few concerns, and a contrarian view...

In installment #1, I explained a few things about us introverts. How we are not shy, not ashamed, and not clueless networkers. Or not...

Luck. Thank you for your attention. I’ll stand by for questions. ___________________ This past weekend Terry Brooks told a rapt crowd of...

Here is a cool interview with Vancouver B.C. agent Sally Harding, with the Cooke Agency. I’ve met Sally and was super impressed. Those of...

I came across a nice audio interview of Donald Maass by Author Magazine. Donald happens to be my agent, and I think he’s terrific. The...

If you are a sociable writer with an outgoing personality and 800 Facebook  friends, hey, that’s cool. A lot of writers, though, aren’t...

My best piece of advice in writing is “don’t go it alone.” The stereotype is that writers struggle in a lonely garret, poor and...

The Novel. It’s like a high mountain peak which, once we have climbed it, will mean something. Or not. I frankly don’t know why so many...

Because (I suppose) I’m a novelist, I can’t think of just one. Here’s a bunch: 1. Read more fantasy. (I’m tiring of SF, alas) 2. ID the...

According to Matthew Flamm at Crain’s New York Business, even with the recession, US readers bought books during the last 12 months,...

Due to popular demand, Sydney T. Cat put up a web page wherein he will give you useless and rude information on your manuscript. Really...