Category: Writing

• Black and White and Read All Over

  Writers can come from any number of backgrounds – just go down the list of famous authors and you’ll see a broad spectrum of “first” careers. But if you’re a…

• Feel the Music

  Music, much like smell, is a powerful memory trigger. Just as a whiff of a lover’s old cologne or perfume can ignite an encyclopedia of emotions, music carries with it…

• The Power of the F-You Factor

  It’s all well and good for authors to talk about deciding to pursue writing for the sake of art. But today it’s time to talk about a secret reason many…

• More About Ray

  Chances are if you’re visiting this blog today it’s because you read an essay I wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer about my former boss, Ray Daub, who passed away Thanksgiving…

• The Cranky Reader Redux

  Back in October I wrote here about the Blessings of the Cranky Reader, in which I ruminated on the emotional and creative repercussions of receiving my first 1-star, boy-this-book-really-sucks review…

• The Story On Toy Story

  With the Thanksgiving holiday and school out for a long weekend, there’s been lots of kid TV on around the house. And with all the junk that’s out there, I’ve…

• Knights of the Roundtable

  A few weeks ago the Codorus Press crew – represented by me, founder Wayne Lockwood and editor/forthcoming author/master of promotions Tom Joyce – traveled up into the Appalachians for the…

• The Blessing of the Cranky Reader

  No matter how big or small your writing ambitions happen to be, there will come that point in your endeavors that someone will be happy to tell you that you…

• A Public Display

  As I mentioned in an earlier post, I remain a frustrated radio guy trapped in a writer’s body. But despite the fact that I don’t get on the air that…

• Radio, Radio

  Once upon a time, I aspired to be a broadcast, rather than print, journalist. It was during those early, heady days at the University of South Carolina that I realized…