The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

I keep getting phone calls from people that end with, “If I don’t talk to you before…” etc., etc. That’s when you know something is ending, whether it’s the year, your job, or your stay at a particular locale. In my case, it’s the latter two.
Ever since we first moved to Norfolk Danielle and I [...]

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Courtesy of Miss Snark
* The Abacus Group Literary Agency
* Allred and Allred Literary Agents (refers clients to “book doctor” Victor West of Pacific Literary Services)
* Capital Literary Agency (formerly American Literary Agents of Washington, Inc.)
* Barbara Bauer Literary Agency
* Benedict & Associates (also d/b/a B.A. Literary Agency)
* Sherwood Broome, Inc.
* Desert Rose Literary Agency
* Arthur [...]

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What is the worst possible thing that can happen upon finishing a book (i.e. a book you’re reading)? Disappointment.
The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker has been recommended to me several times over the years, so finally I read it. It’s about a lunch hour. It’s about the mundane thoughts and happenings of one corporate lunch hour. [...]

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Without a writing project, I have more time to read. More and more, I do that reading online, reading blogs on publishing, reading book reviews, anything that will be helpful when the time comes to query lit agents.
But I’m also reading short stories. I dabbled in short fiction writing for months before deciding to write [...]

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What does one do after he writes a novel.
After two years of thinking about writing a novel and a year and a half actually writing it, I find myself with 70,000 words saved on various types of computer memory. So, after waiting a couple days, feeling good–feeling really good–I reformatted the text (double-spaced, easier on [...]

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