I’ve heard that the average income for people who call themselves professional writers in Canada is somewhere around $7000 per year. Which doesn’t pay many of the bills. Here are a couple of surveys I got off Jennifer Jackson’s blog. … Continue reading
A while back, I wrote a very short post on the rise of the cellphone novel in Japan. Blogging agent Nathan Bransford had a link to a translation of a portion of one of these. I wonder if an adaptation … Continue reading
Break out the bubbly! Story 2 is now a full tale in first draft form. It’s still got a long way to go, of course. At 33,700 words, it’s only a novella. But that’s OK. The bones are there. It’s … Continue reading
A NY Times article on the rise of the cellphone novel in Japan. This is kinda cool. I couldn’t type out an entire novel on my phone, though. My thumbs aren’t fast enough.