In the Write

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently published a study on reading. It confirms what most teachers and librarians already know. Kids read less and less.  The stats show a particularly alarming drop among teenagers.  They spend more time on the internet and less time with the printed word (duh). Dana Gioia, the NEA […]

Right now is perhaps the worst time in my memory for publishing a novel.  That is, for a mainstream print publisher to  pay you and produce a print version of your novel.  The “Big Six publishers” in New York City are offering fewer print titles and paying their best-selling authors more. This leaves crumbs for […]