News and events from Ashland Creek Press
Late last year, Amazon unveiled Kindle for the Web, a feature that allows authors and publishers to easily post book excerpts on their web sites. Here’s what it looks like on my web site (you can click here to see it live): By pasting a text string supplied by Amazon, I can give visitors a …
One of the most important components in a great story is great dialogue — yet sometimes a writer can only travel so far to do his or her research. Fortunately, the Library of Congress has made available a series of American English Dialect Recordings — and it’s well worth checking out. Funded by the Center …
This post on Alan Rinzler’s blog is a great reminder that even if you haven’t started shopping your book around, you may already be giving publishers good reasons to take a chance on you as a writer — or not. He offers a cautionary anecdote along with a few tips for writers (among them: be …
Although I’ve been living up and down the west coast for many years, I’d never made it far enough north (or south) see the Redwoods National Forest. Until last fall. It is a strange feeling to stand next to another living thing that has been on this planet for more than a thousand years. These …
Many writers firmly believe in what they’ve been hearing for years: Write what you know. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — but I find that students who are just starting to write often find it difficult to branch out, to assert their authority as writers beyond their own experiences. At this point I’ll …