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Write Like You Talk
Stacey Gross Sedaris as Example David Sedaris is the most brilliant man alive. Thank god that man picked up a pen and never put it down. David Sedaris can write…
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Self-Publishing: Book in Progress, Part 8
by Joe Taylor - why self-publishing became an attractive option, given some drawbacks The Vision of a Book Admit it, this has happened to you---a friend reads a couple of…
A Review of Marilou is Everywhere
Review by Karen Weyant Marilou is EverywhereSarah Elaine Smith Penguin Random House, 2019 Cindy Stoat lives in a rural Pennsylvania home with her two brothers and a mother who is…
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On Keeping a Notebook
by Tia DeShong On Keeping a Notebook “Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with…
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What Even is a Writing Life
Stacey Gross Writing the next David Sedaris Novel I took a break with my kids today. I knew I told Jess, who’d asked me to write her a story, that…
I’m Just Lucky to Own My Own Car – A Review
Peggy Zortman reviews I’m Just Lucky to Own My Own Car – a first book by Joe Taylor I recently purchased this short book (about 100 pages) at Watershed Books…
40 Patchtown: A Novel, Reviewed
Review of 40 Patchtown: A Novel by Karen Weyant Damian Dressick | Bottom Dog Press | 2020 [T]his story draws readers into a world where miners struggle in poverty, scrounging…
Getting the Book Tested – Book in Progress, Part 7
by Joe Taylor Legitimate Doubts Just the other day I tore up and threw away the list of over 80 literary agents that I had queried about finding a publisher…
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Remotely Join TWJ Events via Airmeet
by Sarah Rossey To join an AirMeet event, simply click the link provided on our calendar from a desktop or laptop computer. Read on to learn more! From writer's meetings…
Book in Progress, Part 6: I Believe in My Book
by Joe Taylor To be brutally honest, it's been worse than brutal. It's been silent. A month after Labor Day, when I thought my responses from prospective agents might pick…