The SLUSHPILE Blog

About two months ago I received an invitation from Night Owl Romance Reviews to submit my work, In the Brief Eternal Silence for review. This requet took me by surprise for two reasons:
1. I didn’t recall contacting them offering them the book (or, if I had contacted them, it had been so long ago I couldn’t [...]

Over the course of the last two weeks, I’ve talked to several new writers (so if any one of you is reading this and thinks that I am talking specifically about ‘you’ — relax, it’s a composite of you and several others in the recent past mixed in with the observations I have had in [...]

There are several things cooking on the publishing stove right now that I find exciting. The first, I blogged briefly about previously, which is the addtion of a new writer whose work I admire very much. Alas, despite its literary qualities (or possibly as a result of those literary qualities) I don’t foresee a block-buster [...]

As an invited presenter for this years Florida Writers Association Conference, I have been following their Florida Writers Conference blog regularly. I follow it with a great deal of fascination.
When I was ‘merely’ a writer I had little opportunity to attend such functions, and I viewed those that could attend with envy. Four kids, a corresponding [...]

For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, you may recall posts I have done about writing and believe my attitude to be a bit of a hard nose when it comes to how it should be done.
Most of these posts you may find under the Rebecca’s Rules for Writing section of this blog.
Well, here’s [...]

Whenever I am introduced to another writer in the area, and especially in the past two weeks when I have had the pleasure of speaking to several in a short period of time, I’m visited with the thought of, why don’t we have a local writer’s group?
I’m aware of a poetry group in the area, [...]

Last year at Art in the Park, it worked well to get our name out there, but the sales were less than encouraging.
This year, I am happy to report, the sales were moving briskly. In fact, I ‘escaped’ my public speaking slot because, I’m sure, every time our coordinator glanced my way, I was busy [...]

In the purest, starkest definition of the word ‘literature’ it is easily interchangable with the word ‘writing’. Basically, any writing can be deemed literature, and any literature can be deemed writing. That goes for the verbage written on the back of your toilet paper pack.
Don’t believe me? Here’s the definition, courtesy of http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/literature

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literature

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If you are a long time follower of my blog, you will recall posts about why I resent publishing. You’ll recall posts where everything seems to be going wrong, from pdf pagemaker crapouts, checks overdue in the mail, the great hard drive meltdown of 2008, and the sometimes unreliability of both web platform software and [...]

In addition to working on Jim Spurr’s upcoming Reflections in the Wake, anticipating Martha being featured in a prominent newspaper, working up a proposal for Choice Books, switching out the discounts to wholesalers and retailers in general, and the on-going real estate classes (which I consider as my ‘extra-curricular’ activity), there’s another little on-going project [...]