pretending

My genius daughter made me a book cover for The So Called Novel. I love it overmuch. I know it’s cheating, but I’m going to have one–maybe two– copies printed. I got a coupon for a free copy when I entered ABNA, and then another for doing...

diagnosing my book

Diagnosing my book: From storyfix.com: One or more of the four elemental core competencies – concept, character, theme or story structure – must be exceptionally compelling, original and mind-blowing.  If all four are simply good, that probably isn’t enough to...

Merry Christmas 2010–a virtual greeting

First, I want to apologize for being lame and not mailing cards this year. We took some pictures a few weeks ago for that purpose, but they didn’t turn out fit to print. I’ll throw one up here: Back row: Gama, Tricia, Danny, Art, Kenny,  Nefi, Rosalie,...