Mon 1 Feb 2010
Or: “How the Internet has expanded what it means to be published.”
About a week ago, I read a piece by Andrew Leonard, one of my favorite Salon.com columnists, about Clarence Thomas’ crazy solo dissent in the recent Supreme Court decision on corporate political spending. (Along the theme of this post: I say “columnist” though you could also call him a blogger. However, what is a blog that exists as part of a larger publication but a column?) I’d long been aware that Thomas often stood alone on issues brought before the court, and realized that now was the time to finally write about it. (more…)
Thu 21 Jan 2010
Posted by Freeman under my writing
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About a year ago, I attended a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference where Yolanda LeRoy, an editor with Charlesbridge Publishing, gave a very entertaining talk about the good and bad picture book manuscripts they get in their slush pile. At one point, she mentioned a classically bad picture book element they often saw: “anthropomorphic alliterative animals”. (more…)
Mon 18 Jan 2010
Posted by Freeman under craft
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A few years ago, a friend (picture book author, blogger, and bookstore owner Elizabeth Bluemle) was giving me her editing notes on an early draft of my first novel when I stumbled onto a trick that has made my efforts at revision not only easier, but more effective ever since. (more…)
Sun 10 Jan 2010
Posted by Freeman under announcements
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I’ve been writing poetry and short fiction for years now, but have never tried very hard to get any of it published. Toward the end of 2009, something changed in my thinking: I decided not only to start sending many of these old pieces out, but to seek publication in other forms, in any way I could. I decided that 2010 would be the year I push myself out into the world. (more…)
