If more of us writers are getting out there with more books, those of us who survive in this business and profit, says Neil Gaiman, are those who hustle. And few writers are more effective hustlers than Gaiman with his sci-fi novels, graphic novels, children’s books, a British television series, and, yes, movies. Gaiman’s written [...]

I’ll tell you at the top, I read very few blogs regularly.
Most that I have read/scanned – and I’ve scanned a lot of them – are not well written. Most of the posts are far too long – we’re in the electronic age, so if you’re going to blog, keep it [...]

Yes, Chicago crime writers Michael Black, Libby Fischer Hellmann, and I – I’m the token Wisconsinite in the All Stars – will do two presentations at the Fox Cities Book Festival.
We’re up tomorrow.
Our subject: “Masters of the Deadly Genre.”
The three of us travel as The Five Star All Stars [...]

Jane Hamilton, Ted Koozer, and David Wroblewski are the star writers at The Fox Cities Book Festival going on now up here in America’s dairyland.
I came back to Wisconsin 10 years ago after having been absent for 30 years. I knew we had writers here, but didn’t know we had any [...]

We have two big book festivals here in the beer and bratwurst state: the Wisconsin Book Festival in October that takes over our capital city and the Fox Cities Book Festival running right now up and down the Fox River Valley south of Green Bay.
The Wisconsin is the older of [...]

I’ve got a new friend, Laura Bush.
And an old friend, Dale Sparks. Dale and I worked for Beckley (West Virginia) Newspapers, three decades ago, Dale as a darn good photographer fresh out of high school and me as a reporter. We frequently worked the same stories, he with his camera and me with my pad [...]

Kenneth C. Davis put a stern – really stern – profile photo up on his wall with this note: “After writing Don’t Know Much About books for 20 years, they tell me that I can’t sell ANY books without a Facebook page. So here I am! Did E.B. White need Facebook? Oh, well…”
Good question.
Did the [...]

I’m on Facebook!
As of last week.
Many of us writers are. It’s one way we reach out to build a fan base, to let our “friends” know what we’re writing now and where we’ll be making appearances and signing books.
Also we in the large A.D. White family clan scattered in the Lower Forty-eight, Hawaii, and the [...]