Monthly Archives: April 2009
How to Write a Better Blog
By Kevin Nelson Writing a blog? Here’s a tip on how to write a better one: Show the value of what you’re doing, not to yourself but to other people. Let me demonstrate by showing how I screwed up a … Continue reading
A Regular Joe
Recently I heard from Travis Roste, who runs joeheavyweight.com, a boxing memorabilia website (“Boxing for the regular Joe,” as he calls it). Travis lives in Minnesota and although we’ve never met, I know he’s an upright guy because he actually … Continue reading
Filed under Adventures in Writing, Books, Operation Bullpen, Parenting
Slaying the Dreaded Video Game Beast
The latest in my mad quest to do every challenge in The Dangerous Book for Boys with my sons in a year…Today I gave my son the choice between learning to make paper airplanes or playing his new Mario Party … Continue reading
Filed under Parenting, The Dangerous Quest
Making a Bow and Arrow: Boys’ Rite of Passage?
More from The Dangerous Quest: “At some point,” says The Dangerous Book for Boys on page 35, “you may consider making a bow and arrow.” Actually, in all my life I have never considered making a bow and arrow until … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Parenting, The Dangerous Quest
The End of Paperbacks?
Yesterday I was chatting with book designer Usana Shadday, who thinks the future of publishing may not include paperbacks. No paperbacks? How so? “I think paperbacks will die, probably,” said the 29-year-old. He is a partner in The Book Designers, … Continue reading
Filed under Adventures in Writing, Books, Wheels of Change
Magazine Excerpt of Operation Bullpen
Autograph Magazine is running an excerpt from Operation Bullpen: The Inside Story of the Biggest Forgery Scam in American History in its current issue. Read it here.
Filed under Books, Operation Bullpen
God is Hawaiian
It’s spring, and the men at our church are busting out their aloha shirts. I sometimes think God is Hawaiian because in warm weather everyone in our church seems to don a Tommy Bahama or something similar for Sunday service. … Continue reading
Filed under Personal
Interesting World, I’ll Say!
After reading my recent post how Japanese novelist-turned-agent Yukari Watanabe Scott is using blogging and other new media to sell Operation Bullpen to Japanese publishers, magazine editor Kimberly Cole writes, “I enjoyed your recent post, ‘Bullpen Going Japanese?’ My daughter … Continue reading
Filed under Adventures in Writing, Books, Operation Bullpen
How to Write a Successful Query
Last week I appeared on Scott Shafer’s radio program, The California Report, on KQED-FM, and it prompted some thoughts, curiously enough, about query letters. What’s a query letter? A query letter is basically a short, succinct sales pitch that writers … Continue reading
