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Archives for December 2017

How I Came to Write My Light-Hearted Novels

December 20, 2017

by Joseph Caldwell
Bestselling author of The Pig Trilogy

The Pig Trilogy by Joseph Caldwell

The Pig books are the most light-hearted of all my books. I would not have written them if the AIDS epidemic had never happened. As a volunteer at Saint Vincent’s hospital in New York City, I helped take care of many people who were ill with the disease. I had many friends who died. [Read more…]

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Why Are So Many People Writing Memoirs?

December 6, 2017

by Steven Gaines
Bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow and
now his memoir One of These Things First

Why Are So Many People Writing Memoirs?

Why are so many people writing memoirs? Expiation? Ego? Money? Revenge?  [Read more…]

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When Good Novelists Write Not-so-Good Novels

December 6, 2017

Book Publishing and Editing - A Fine Balance

What separates someone like myself from most other book editors is that I am a writer first and foremost. There are many advantages to this – sometimes using my own craft I can easily conjure up an example of what I think should be done in a manuscript: embroidering a scene; a certain kind of character description; or even a punctuation of a moment that gives a sense of marking time. [Read more…]

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