News and events from Ashland Creek Press
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 …
“I’ll never have it as good as prison again,” said author Dewitt Gilmore once told New York Times. “For writing, anyway.” This New York Times article, “Street Lit With Publishing Cred: From Prison to a Four-Book Deal,” seems to be proof that writers do need rooms of their own: Gilmore (whose pen name is Relentless Aaron) …
While most writers know that book titles can’t be copyrighted, we have yet to see another Moby-Dick or Gone with the Wind. What’s far more common, as this site shows, is using same cover art for many different books. Doesn’t every writer love a good malapropism? This NY Times article reminded me of my days …
I can still remember the first story I ever wrote, when I was maybe eight or nine years old, on school notebook paper in what was then my fairly neat, legible handwriting. I think it may also have been illustrated. Perhaps because, back in my day, we still wrote high-school English papers by hand (I …