News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #101…

[The celebration of issue #100 is now history, so some chest-thumping is back. Well, that’s newsy too, and I don’t spam readers with email newsletters like many authors, so you won’t find most of my personal news anywhere else. News about the publishing business is more op-ed like—comment on those items if you approve or disapprove.]

Item. Feedback is important. Lurkers abound on the internet. This isn’t a negative term for the most part, by the way. I’m a lurker myself. I read a lot of opini...