The writing business is a tough one. It eats unwary writers for breakfast and smears the leavings over computer screens and scraps of paper for the wind to blow away. A writer’s world is full of politics and trolls, reviews and rejections, market trends and genre crashes, not to mention the self doubt and despair involved in trying to transform that brilliant but elusive idea into reasonably coherent prose.
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Guest Post by Chris Pitchford: Dream jobs. Sometimes it’s not enough to have just one
By Chris Pitchford Benny had two of my all-time favorite jobs. He was a writer and he commanded a space station. Actually, he was a character played by Avery Brooks in one of my favorite television shows. In one memorable episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Benny’s original writing was attacked by hostile indifference….
Becoming an Old Timer
I am now an old-timer. I realized this last weekend, at the Colorado Gold conference, and the new-found awareness of the role is a bit daunting. Twenty years ago, I attended my first RMFW conference. I was new to RMFW, having joined earlier in the year after hearing a published member’s presentation on how supportive…
The Winner of Barbara Graham’s Book Giveaway
The winner of a copy of Barbara Graham‘s novel Murder by Sunlight: The Charity Quilt is Jacqueline Seewald Congratulations, Jacqueline
Twenty Years of Conference Memories
by Karen Duvall I had such a blast at the Colorado Gold Conference last weekend. It brought back memories of the very first Gold I attended in 1994. Twenty years. Damn, I feel old. I think I’ve only ever missed one conference in all these years and that’s because I moved to Oregon and the…