Last May I was overweight and hypertensive, and I was unhappy about needing medication for a preventable cardiac risk. As serendipity would have it, I met a nutritionist while on a writing assignment for an outdoor magazine, and she recommended the book, 100 DAYS TO WEIGHT LOSS by Linda Spangle. Two-hundred and twenty-eight days […]

If “impatience is the bane of self publishing,” then well-crafted writing, careful editing and artful book design are its salvation. In this post, I outline the steps that transform a piece of writing into a publication. These are the steps required regardless of how the book is published: electronically, offset, or letterpress. If you want […]

            It’s easy to get published, but hard to be read. Advances in technology have made it possible for anyone with access to the internet to self-publish. Unfortunately, finding readers is not as easy – especially for those writers who do not have a specific audience in mind. Worse, the ease with which one can […]

Regular Live to Write – Write to Live blogger Deborah Lee Luskin recently posted Raising a Writer. Here’s a post by that young writer, who by changing the language, offers a new way to think about sending work out. ************************************** It’s hard to get excited about submitting. Submission Opportunity sounds dirty. As a twenty-three year […]

           My middle child is a playwright. If I were a responsible parent, I’d probably discourage her from pursuing a career in the arts, unless she were to go into arts management, where she could be regularly underpaid instead of intermittently so. Because face it: as much as we lionize successful artists in our culture, […]