Clandestine Publishing

09/22/2026

"At some point you have to choose between life and fiction. The two are very close, but they never actually touch. They are two very, very different things." - from the film, The Words, 2012

09/13/2026

09/03/2026

"Literature allows us to enter into the inner life and inner experience of other people as no other art form is able to do, and in novels particularly we have the experience of being someone else – of knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other art form or medium can do that. To write a novel, as to read a novel, is to experience the astonishment of inhabiting another personality, another life." - Donna Tartt, author of The Secret History

08/20/2026

"Readers generally appreciate shorter scenes, which honor their time and attention and keep things moving. So, writers tend to drop the reader into a scene after things have gotten interesting and pull the reader out before things get boring."

Five secrets to writing scenes of perfect length.

08/11/2026

Know your goals, create a plan, take the risk...

With no platform and no publisher, one author built a six-month pre-launch plan around a single question: what is your goal?

08/11/2026

Who else?

08/11/2026

Me offering advice to my friends when they come to me with real problems.
Thanks for the emotional support, Nietzsche.

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