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Tag - you're it...by Cathy Ace

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C'est la vie ... by RM Greenaway

BUSINESS: Do you have a literary executor named in your will? What would you like (or loathe!) to have happen to your work when you've shuffled off this mortal coil?
A good question. I hope I live a good long while, but in the off chance that I don't, it would be good to have this problem worked out in advance, now that I've gone and created this monster: a published series. These monsters (also sometimes known as assets) go crashing along on their own, but need their creators there with them....

Good question, I guess

Q: Do you have a literary executor named in your will? What would you like (or loathe) to have happen to your work when you've shuffled off this mortal coil?


- from Susan


A: My (current) hopes for my work don't extend beyond my last breath, to tell the truth. Maybe I'm not ambitious enough, or confident enough, but what I'd really like is to have my work be accepted, liked, honored now, thank you.

No more thoughts on the subject, but I'll read my fellow Minds' more thoughtful and strategic answe...

Hummin'; or, How To Walk Tall

Pretending there are no time constraints, would you ever get the urge to sit down with your own published work and read?

This week's topic moved me toward introspection. To break on it, I needed to stimulate the air in the crib with the appropriate vibrations. Feel free to enjoy it with me. The mighty, majestic, Cannonball Adderley Quintet's "Hummin'."


So I've done stuff in a bunch of areas, and mostly to less than my satisfaction, but I've always Walk(ed) Tall. Sometime in my thirties, when I...

If I had all the time in the world, would I like to read my own books?

James W. Ziskin
Jim

I adhere to the old saw “Write what you would like to read” and not “Write what you know.” So, yes, I would like to read my own books if I had the time…and—I can’t stress this enough—if I hadn’t written them myself. Here are both sides of the argument.

1. Pro: I love books that transport the reader to another time and place. Set in the early 1960s, my books follow a twenty-something reporter named Ellie Stone as she investigates murder for her local paper. There are five book...

Never go back

by Dietrich Kalteis
Pretending there are no time constraints, would you ever get the urge to sit down with your own published work and read?
I went on a trip last year to visit family and went through the reading material I brought along very early on. Being with family, naturally I found a couple of my novels on the bookshelf next to some vintage Reader’s Digests. So, I reread my first one, Ride the Lightning. It did cross my mind that I might find some error that slipped past me back when I w...

I'm a Chicken

By R.J. Harlick
Pretending there are no time constraints, would you ever get the urge to sit down with your own published work and read?
I love reading. No matter how busy I am, I always find time to read. It’s one of life’s pleasures that helps me chill out after a busy day. I want a book I can relax with, a book that will help me escape to another world.
Now you ask, would I chose one of my own?
You have to understand that by the time one of my books is released into the big broad world, I will...

Would I read my books?

Terry Shames answering this week’s perplexing question: if I had all the time in the world, would I like to read my own work?
I assume the question means would I pick one of my books out of all those wonderful books at the bookstore and read it. The answer is yes, and here’s why:
1)       The covers. I love the cover designs on my books. I love the colors, but even more I like the idea that they present: there is a certain desolation that each depicts that I like....

The Good Life, The Bad Life and the Writing Life

(Besides getting rich) how has the writing life changed you as a person?

by Paul D. Marks

Rich is the only way I’ve changed from the writing life. The Porsche. The yacht. The jet. The castle next to George Clooney’s on Lake Como. Am I leaving anything out? Oh wait, I jest.

My castle is right next door to George Clooney's house

Happy Book Birthday to Me!

I'm going off-piste because THE WEIGHT OF ANGELS is out today in the UK. (HOUSE. TREE. PERSON as it's called in the US is out on the 8th of September).


I'm going to answer the question: "Where do you get your ideas?", since for once I actually know. The premise, plot and title of HOUSE-TREE-PERSON fell into my head in one piece. Okay, that plot is now only one strand of the story, but it's the main one.

I was at the Writer's Police Academy in Wisconsin in 2015, at Katherine Ramsland's session o...