Storytelling is generally done in the past tense. Those who huddled around the fire and recounted great hunts or encounters with strange tribes spoke of things that had happened in their past. Events that had come before. Those storytellers are our lineage and the past tense is our heritage. This is why we tell stories [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Past/Present
October 27, 2007
He Said/She Said
October 21, 2007
Are there qualities that are common and identifiable about female authors? Male authors? If you didn’t know the name of the author of a book you’re reading, do you think you could identify if the writer was a man or a woman?
I’m not really talking about subject matter; I’ve read that most romance novels are [...]
Where was the editor?
October 7, 2007
In the last few weeks I had the opportunity to listen to recorded versions of mysteries by two best-selling authors. Both are well into their series (more than a dozen novels each) so have established characters and, presumably, established readers. But more important to my point, both are untouchable in terms of their success. These [...]
This might explain a few things
October 3, 2007
I have two agents who have asked to see sample chapters of my Finnegans Festive novel. That the good news. One agent has had the material for more than a month, though I suppose that it not so long as these things go. The other agent has had it for less than two weeks, but [...]
