What especially caught my attention was when she revealed that she found it at a Scholastic Books fair and host Chris Hayes joked he remembered those. It is great those still exist! Hearing that led me to recall what I had sitting on a bookshelf just feet away in my office here… … More This Is “5th Grade” Reading?
Women writers put up with a huge amount of sexist nonsense through “social media” from some men… … More The Grammar Police(men)
MLB wants to raise the profile of baseball here in the U.K. Honestly, though, it is probably not worth the effort. They would likely get much bigger “returns” elsewhere for a similar effort… … More A Bat And A Ball… And Two Worlds
I tend to smile out of sympathy when I hear someone declare, “I’d like to write a novel.” I thought that way long ago, too. However, I discovered after I wrote “the novel” and readers generally liked it that I would never be satisfied with just “the one”; that I craved to write more and more… and get better and better… first and foremost for readers, but also for myself. … More “Number 7”
All mates on the same “team,” eh? I could go on. Or maybe I just bring it out of some in ways other authors don’t? … More Know Your [Team]Mates
Let’s talk writing (as I do here). How might AI impact authors and fiction? … More The Intelligence Is “Artificial”
No one writing day is ever exactly the same as any other… but let me here share part (at times maybe rather lightheartedly) of a recent morning… … More Distractions, Doorbells, Interruptions
Would I now write a novel set in Russia? … More Write, War, Postpone
Authors have always been in much the same uphill battle for attention as musicians and actors now increasingly find themselves. For living authors have always had to compete with the idolized authors dead… … More The Endless Struggle Of “The New”
R. J. Nello 