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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Shut Up, Already

Stop whining about the publishing industry tanking, or laying off a bulk of their editorial staff. Stop giving yourself excuses as to why you haven’t been published. Your book wasn’t published because it wasn’t good enough. If you truly worked diligently and didn’t sit around finding excuses for why your book doesn’t fit today’s market [...]

Shaft-Getting

Man walks into the coffee shop, and he’s talking before the door closes behind him. I think he’s talking to me, so I turn toward him. He says he’s got shaft work to do at the old Eagle Building. It takes three or four seconds to realize he’s talking to the old guy with the [...]