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S&S use tsunami to sell christ to kids

by | Jan 27, 2005 | pre-wp

“[The audience for these books] is not what we have always thought of as the traditional Christian market. It’s Joe Everybody. When a tsunami hits, you want to be reassuring to your kids.” – Robin Corey, Simon & Schuster Publishing Good to...

Being anti-anti-everything

by | Jan 26, 2005 | pre-wp

Max Barry is a fine example of a writer who uses his website to promote his books, communicate with his fans and speak his mind. In his latest post he answers his critics who accuse him of being “anti-everything”, something that is regularly laid at my...

Your Mail in Court

by | Jan 25, 2005 | pre-wp

That old NAFTA spectre of Chapter 11 is rearing its ugly head again. The good people at UPS believe that Canadians don’t deserve a publicly owned parcel delivery service, and they’ll sue the packages off us to make that point. Thanks to a little NAFTA...

When Garbage Bins Attack

by | Jan 25, 2005 | pre-wp

What’s Toronto’s answer to their littering problem? Bigger garbage bins! I’m talking 7 1/2 feet tall. With ads. Lit up (as in draining electricity from the already strained TO power grid.) That’s taller than Toronto Raptor Loren Woods, who is a...

More Great Advice from Crof

by | Jan 14, 2005 | pre-wp

Anyone looking for a great blog for writing inspiration and advice would do well to drop in at Writing Fiction, just one of Crawford Kilian’s many blogs. Crof discusses the progress and setbacks of his own fiction with an honesty that most writers could never...