Arts – Page 3 – Jacke Wilson

January 3, 2014

New Year, New Cover!

Happy New Year, everyone! And guess what? I’m very excited to unveil the new cover for The Race: A Novella. I couldn’t be happier with how it looks and the way it suggests the themes and tone of the book. Many thanks to my brilliant designer and all the others who put in their comments and Continue reading

Fiction, Novellas, Publishing, The Race

Arts, cover design, Literary fiction, Self-Publishing

December 18, 2013

Small Press Shout-Outs: Last Call for the Holidays!

With a week left until the Great Opening of The Presents Day, just a very quick reminder of all the holiday gift ideas we’ve had here lately: Equip your favorite spy (or spy wannabe) with the Passport to Crime bundle from Soho Press Drop into a fluffy Minnesota snowdrift with Graywolf Press (and see if Continue reading

Authors, Publishing, Writing

Arts, Atticus Books, Graywolf Press, Kaya Press, Literature, Publishing, Small press, Soho Press, Tiny TOE Press

December 17, 2013

Three Bits of Holiday Cheer

Okay, enough with the bad news. The doom and gloom. The oh-so-bleak writing. Let’s bring ourselves into the proper mood for a December post! How about this? And this? Or this? We’re getting there, people… turning things around… and check back tomorrow for (hopefully) some good news from Jacke… some developments brewing… Continue reading

Uncategorized

Arts, Holidays, Optimism, Programs, Television

December 16, 2013

Killer Stories

Yesterday we talked about George Carlin and training your brain to be your creative partner. Which got me to thinking about the new novella I’m working on, which starts out bleak and just gets darker and darker. It felt good to write it – not unlike the purgation of negativity I recently attempted on this Continue reading

Authors, Writing

Arts, Brain, George Carlin, novella, Short story, Steven King, Writers Resources, Writing

December 13, 2013

Writer in Your Life? The Greatest Gift Idea Ever

Great Paris Review interview with the amazing Ursula K. Le Guin. Two quick points: Le Guin mentions getting an early boost from Ace Doubles, a series by Ace Publishing that sought to put out two short novels combined in one book. I love this idea – and what great covers they had! Worth a roam through the Continue reading

Authors, Publishing, Writing

Arts, Interview, Online Writing, Poetry, Soho Press, Ursula K Le Guin, Writers Resources

December 12, 2013

Terrible Poem Breakdown: An Apologia (and What They Knew #16-24)

Yesterday we started the new series Terrible Poem Breakdown, in which I criticized a Terrible Poem primarily for its negativity. I’ve had it pointed out to me that this may be somewhat hypocritical, coming from me. This blog has not exactly been moondreams and rainbows. Readers, I’ve been trying to be encouraging! And yet I Continue reading

Authors, Terrible Poem Breakdown, What They Knew, Writing

Arts, Christopher Marlowe, Henry David Thoreau, Literature, Moon, P. G. Wodehouse, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

December 6, 2013

Small Press Shout-Out: Soho Press!

Today’s small press shout-out is the fabulous Soho Press! Soho has been pumping out quality books from New York City since 1986. They specialize in literary fiction and young adult books and I’m sure they’re all great, but… ah, there’s no point in denying it, I’m most drawn to Soho Crime, their international-themed crime fiction imprint. Continue reading

Fiction, Publishing

Arts, Book, Crime fiction, Literature, New York City, Publishing, Small press, Soho Press

December 3, 2013

Ordering Adjectives

Hmm. You’d think I’d have already known that adjectives in English follow a precise, well-defined order: Opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose-noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. But then again, maybe not. After all, according Continue reading

Authors, Writing

Adjective, Arts, Education, English, English language, Language Arts, Word order

November 30, 2013

Weird Magazines (and Small Presses)

Nikkitha Bakshani takes a look at the fascinating world of niche magazines put out by very small presses. Bakshani had trouble finding them at first: I was under the impression that I could walk into any news stand in New York and find a slew of oddly titled publications—something about ferrets or specially-authorized Bavarian buses—something effortlessly Continue reading

Publishing

Arts, Business, Magazine, Morning News, Publishing, Science fiction, Small press

November 24, 2013

What They Knew #14

“Everything intelligent is so boring.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, What They Knew, Writing

Anna Karenina, Arts, Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Literature, Russian, Tolstoy, World literature