I’m 46, author of a few hundred books, articles, and stories, but I’ll never forget the singular exultation when my second grade English teacher, Mrs. Lehan, announced to my class at the school library that I’d won “honorable mention” in the all-county writing contest (for my gritty and groundbreaking 1976 story, “The Magic Key.” It […]
It’s 1988; I’m 19, living abroad, and I’ve just somehow landed my dream job interning for a Very Powerful Poet and Publisher. The fact the VPPP, whose stature I cannot overstate, even knows my name makes no sense, yet all of this is unfolding. My first day. First morning. And, at length, my first assignment […]
Tonight I lament the depression of one of my Authors. He’s an erudite scientist, what they call a “thought-leader” in his field, a field which is about as difficult and byzantine as rocket science without actually being rocket science. My Author has become my friend. This is owing to the fact that good ghosting […]
