I’ve been reading a lot of book excerpts, screenplay pages, short stories, poems and lyrics lately. I’m evaluating writers to fill out the staff here. What I’m looking for is exceptional talent. But it’s not simply a matter of how well a writer...
I do love great writing. This is a paragraph from a short story by Kevin Hall. Topic is the young man’s first job as an intern in the basement of a hundred-year-old brick building in Omaha, now housing a big law firm: “Fall turned to Winter, Winter turned...
I love watching football, especially on a really big-screen TV. And I love great writing. Sports writing is a challenge. Describing plays and the actions of players is often given over to excessive use of superlatives, and there’s a reason for that. Great things...
I’m reconfiguring Ghostwriters Central. The first change was to bring Kate Jonez on board. She’s a marvelous writer, author, screenwriter and editor. I’ve run advertising seeking new, highly-skilled writers and had over 130 replies. Many of those...
I’m the point of initial contact with prospective clients and many of these callers want to tell me the story they’ve got in mind for a book. I’m happy to listen. Maybe a third of these callers want my opinion about whether their story is good enough...
