On January 3, eighteen months after Simon and Schuster released the first of my four thriller novels, my publishing career in the U.S. came to an abrupt halt. If that had happened on January 3, 2007, my career would have been over in this country. But because it was January...
0 Comments | Posted December 8, 2010 | 2:43 AM
It's the end of the year, which means prophets will soon be flooding every possible venue with predictions for the future. Most of them will end up being laughably wrong. And because it's the end of the decade, they'll be wrong about what happens for the next ten years. The...
0 Comments | Posted August 27, 2010 | 6:24 PM
When I was looking for a publisher in the olden days of 2008 (47 years ago in ebook time), it seemed clear that the way to make a living as a writer was to get an agent, find a publisher, sell your book in stores, and wait for the money...
0 Comments | Posted June 16, 2010 | 4:24 PM
Twenty-five publishers turned down my thriller novel, The Ark. If you're not familiar with New York publishing, that's everybody. And it wasn't because they didn't like it, which made for some serious cognitive dissonance on my part. My agent, Irene Goodman, thought my story--about a former combat engineer who must...
0 Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 2:01 PM