Christopher Meeks's Blog, page 10
March 7, 2012
The Author Experience
To be an author in the 21st Century is much like being Itchie or Scratchy on The Simpsons, the cat-and-mouse characters who are forever being thrown around and oth
February 20, 2012
My video experiment tonight
To be an author in the 21st Century is much like being Itchie or Scratchy on The Simpsons, the cat-and-mouse characters who are forever being thrown around and otherwise smashed and tortur
February 18, 2012
The Science of Love
The big premise of my comic novel Love At Absolute Zero is that a 32-year-old physicist, in tune with his inner salmon, can find his soul mate in three days using the Scientific Metho
February 11, 2012
WHAT J.K. ROWLING TEACHES MY WRITING STUDENTS (AND ME)
My romance-and-science novel, Love At Absolute Zero, just started a blog tour, and one site asked if I'd write a guest blog.
January 10, 2012
NOVEL THAT WAS TURNED DOWN BY N.Y. WINS THREE “BEST” AWARDS
I have to preface this story about the awards I’ve just won. I once worked in the public affairs department of the California Institute of the Arts. It’d been a dream job.
NOVEL THAT WAS TURNED DOWN BY N.Y. WINS THREE "BEST" AWARDS
I have to preface this story about the awards I've just won. I once worked in the public affairs department of the California Institute of the Arts. It'd been a dream job.
January 9, 2012
January 7, 2012
LIFE STAGES AND THE LOSS OF A FRIEND
In As You Like It, Shakespeare said man has seven ages. The first four are each expressed in a single word: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier. The last three needed explanation.
January 1, 2012
"FREE" – THE NEWEST WRINKLE IN PUBLISHING
Many authors and people in the publishing business are using the words "monopolistic" when it comes to Amazon for a few reasons.
December 19, 2011
Two Hats for Today's Writers (and 10 Awful Truths)
I just saw a documentary, To Write and Keep Kind, a PBS documentary on the life and writing of Raymond Carver.
