During interviews I’ve given—both live and digital—interviewers sometimes expressed interest in how I treated issues of faith in my work, up to and including the
After I’d written several Star Wars novels and a short story with the late, wonderful Michael Reaves, I was asked to give a number of
One picture is worth a thousand words. This is a commonly held aphorism. In the life of a writer this is a real-world formula. Often
“How would you define scene development and what is the key to making it consistently good throughout a novel?” If you’ll recall, this was a
“How would you define scene development and what is the key to making it consistently good throughout a novel?” This was a question asked of
All three of my children are avid readers. The day I was inspired to write this little essay, my oldest daughter, Kristine (on the left
In a prior ”confession,” I talked about the qualities of a hero in context with a book I was writing for a client I code-named
A ghostwriting client (hereafter, ”Murphy”) hired me to write a coming-of-age fantasy. He’d written a proposed opening scene in which the reader meets a heroic
There are two questions that writers invariably get: ”Where do you get your ideas?” and ”How did you get published?” This second question is often
Back in 2-13, Del Rey / LucasBooks released THE LAST JEDI, co-authored by yours truly and the late (and much-missed) Michael Reaves. Concurrently with this,
I recently had to exorcise, er, fire a client. One I’d been working with for years. I have written three complete novels for this fellow,
A client for my ghostwriting and editing services—I shall call him Rocky—once asked me what essential things a writer must do to lay the foundations
This is a true story. The names and titles have been changed to protect the guilty. A longtime collaborator whose movie script I was novelizing
