readers – Geoff Palmer – Award-Winning Author

Famous Last Words

Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.Karl Marx, philosopher. I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.Humphrey[…]

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300 drafts, seven years, and plenty of crying, apparently.

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With just 42 books of plays and poetry, William Shakespeare tops the list of best-selling fiction authors with estimated sales[…]

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According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]

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Whoever said ‘We only live once’ wasn’t a reader. Joy Cowley

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A Christmas Carol: You will become better acquainted with a coworker. Frankenstein: A friend is a present you give yourself.[…]

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Ian Rankin is author of 21 Inspector Rebus novels along with 20 others. He’s also written plays, graphic novels, short[…]

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Fifteen more famously rejected writers who persevered. Can you identify who, and in some cases, what book, got rejected? (You’ll[…]

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Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]

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It’s over a decade old (2004) but a Slashdot post by acclaimed sci-fi author Neal Stephenson (left) is worth repeating:[…]

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