Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Writing/Reading on Oct 28th, 2009
I recently attended SIWC and had a pitch session with a NY Editor of an established pub. Here is the piece of paper I took into the session. Pitch: My story, The Backup, is about Maggie, a computer whiz. She stoops to lowly computer repair gigs on craigslist to pay the bills. When her dumb-ass [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Oct 25th, 2009
A Writers Conference I have never been to a Writers Conference so I didn’t know what I was in for. Sure the sessions and speakers were posted on the site, but you never really know until you go, right? A year ago I started asking every writer I could find locally and asked for a [...]
Posted in Tech, Writing/Reading on Oct 21st, 2009
I finished John Grisham‘s “The Associate.” My first reaction is that he is one hell of a writer. If he wasn’t, I would not have finished the book. My second reaction is he shouldn’t hinge the success of his plot on technology. The story follows a first-year Yale Law grad through the chore of working [...]