News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #95…

Item. The Mockingbird sequel. It turns out that the “discovery” of the Harper Lee’s old MS (written before Mockingbird but still a sequel) occurred in 2011 and not just recently. Why Harper Collins didn’t own up to that originally can be analyzed by the pundits, but do we care? I find it all a wee bit disappointing because it detracts from Lee’s famous and still unique novel, but who knows what big publishers will do to sell a book?

Item. Goodreads and LinkedIn mean good people. Now that I’ve...