YOU CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS FROM AN OLD BOOK
August 09, 2018
caroline miller, Cluny Brown, Margery Sharp, Rutherford Classics, starting an imprint, The Lady in Waiting, The Rescuers, Victoria Magazine, working with publishers2 Comments
Several months ago, I broke with the last of my 4 publishers. I’ve had 4 because the first became ill and closed the business. Another bought a company that held my contract and turned out to be a crook. Law enforcement eventually shut him down. A third tried to change t
Continue Reading →Ships That Sail On the Tide
January 05, 2018
Alice Walker, Daphne de Maurier, Margery Sharp, Mrs. G. G. Alder, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Huston
Some friends dropped by the other day with a book for me to read, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Published in 1937 by a Zora Neal Huston, the tribute on the cover was written by Alice Walker: There is no book more important to me than this one. I’d never heard of the author so, b
Continue Reading →Immortality And The Writer
April 22, 2016
Daphne Du Maurier, E. M. Forster, Hanry James, J. J. Jackson, Margery Sharp, Michael Kinssley, Those Who Write for Immortality, Virginia Woolf
Thoughts of immortality enter most people’s minds before they cross the final threshold. Presidents think of their legacy. Actors imagine their hand prints cemented into a square on Hollywood Boulevard, and no tyrant ever failed to strike a heroic pose for a statue. On the que
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