Tag: book editor

October 13, 2017 /

For ten days author William Kuhn and I have been talking about writing, reading, screenplays, books, black and white photography, Los Angeles, the dream factory, and what and who we love. A tall order and today we wrap it all up. But I wanted you, dear readers, to know some…

December 7, 2013 /

Okay. I’ll cut it out now. But on a serious note: thank you for reading along and putting up with all my self-referential hooey. Merci beaucoup, from the bottom of my heart.

December 7, 2013 /

I decided against it. Here’s a description of the novel from the back of the book cover:

December 7, 2013 /

The editor has done all his work… And I have integrated his suggestions into the text… With a minimum of bickering, a lot of laughing, and some intellectual stretching. Monday on I read the manuscript out loud—it’s the only way—you have to HEAR during that last bit of the process…

December 4, 2013 /

If you sit hunched at your computer all the time you will turn into a quivering mass of protoplasm. Get up, stretch, take a walk… Now, get back to work.

December 2, 2013 /

Driving home from Dim Sum Sunday the weekend after Thanksgiving, we came to a road so beautiful, so golden with autumn, that I made The Mister pull over and hopped out of the car to snap this picture. As it is I can barely contain myself, because—drum roll please—this is…