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Most ebooks I’ve published have been of the teacher-resource variety with static pages suitable for printing and reproducing, but I recently revisited the world of reflowable text and learned quite a bit. Reflowable text ebooks allow readers to change text sizes and page orientations while reading, and their devices repaginate the books automatically. About ten... Continue Reading →
The Display Takes Shape ESWA’s December 13th Holiday Book Festival at Cult Classic Brewing helped me realize so many successes, particularly meeting fellow writers, their families, and visitors— connections far more important than book sales, newsletter sign-ups, business cards distributed, and the hard numbers talked about in marketing workshops. I’d like to thank the woman... Continue Reading →
The Eastern Shore Writers' Association's Winter Book Festival and its Zoom reading event are almost here. 26 Delmarva writers, including me, will share excerpts from their works on Thursday, December 11th over Zoom beginning at 7:30 PM. Authors participating in the readings are among the 37 featured at the book festival happening Saturday, December 13th,... Continue Reading →
Gus and Gus, a Rehoboth Beach boardwalk food stand operating since 1956, serves an outstanding burger. I stood a few hours ago at their ocean-facing counter and watched my cheese, fried-onion, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, and mustard masterpiece come together on a grill possibly original to the stand. The grill is the magic ingredient. Grilling lore tells us my... Continue Reading →
To all of our teachers in the Eastern Shore Writers Association (and ESWA writers interested in education), please check your inboxes for an invitation to the Thursday, May 8th session The Subject is Writing beginning at 7:30 PM via Zoom. We will explore practical techniques to promote writing across subject areas and grade levels-- and... Continue Reading →
Plot, character development, and setting are expected ingredients for an engaging and moving story, but what about energy? A pivotal moment in my evolution as a writer occurred in the late nineties when Stuart Jaffe and David Bender, fellow members of a writers’ group, helped me to see the relationships between pacing, rhythm, and scenes, which... Continue Reading →
Sometimes, I know exactly what I want then someone shows me what I really want. This is the story of how my poor attempt at concept art for the cover of Jimmy Grits, Private Eye became something brilliant when placed in the skilled hands of Philadelphia-based artist Aubrey Brown. Drawing is not in my skill... Continue Reading →
Revising a first draft often involves sifting through pages of setting, backstory, catchy phrases, not-so-catchy phrases, and everything dumped onto the page to find the point where something actually happens. A friend asked me to read the first chapters of his novel based upon his experiences in The Air Force. I highlighted a line about three pages... Continue Reading →
On a basic level, artificial intelligence is based upon the theft and recycling of writers’ ideas and word-craft— the works of artists and intellectuals of all sorts, really— who have uploaded the fruits of their sweat and hard-won skills into the cloud. Pretty cynical, I know, but perhaps an important realization in trying to figure out... Continue Reading →
Reader groups have helped my writing short-game. Spelling errors, grammar foibles, scene inconsistencies— you name it, readers have found it in my articles and short story drafts and have guided me through corrections. I cannot begin to describe all I’ve learned from engaging in the writing process with those who love story-telling and the craft,... Continue Reading →
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