by Cooper West | May 7, 2012 | Editorial
I subscribe to a lot of blogs that encourage positive thinking, breaking the mold, seeking personal fulfillment and following your bliss. I get some sarcasm about that, but I figure, we get enough negative messages from pretty much everywhere (news, magazines, TV...
by Cooper West | May 6, 2012 | Modus Operandi
The update today is that there is no update. I spent the day suffering from a stomachache (brought on by the past week’s poor yet extravagant food choices while on the road) and doing nothing but pleasure reading. Sometimes, a person just needs a Sunday to...
by Cooper West | May 5, 2012 | gradschool, Modus Operandi
Finally back from that professional conference! It was actually a good trip but it always feels good to come home, yeah? One thing that was a hot topic is jobs. The conference was for a state-level organization of information science professionals (librarians,...
by Cooper West | Apr 29, 2012 | Writing Update
One story I really love but put on hold with everything else is one with the working title of Hogan’s Heroes (which is a pretty lame title and probably trademarked by the TV series but that’s okay, it’s a working title. For the record, it has nothing...
by Cooper West | Apr 28, 2012 | Income Report, Writing Industry
Right now my only publisher is Dreamspinner, so when that royalty statement arrives that’s pretty much the whole picture of my writerly income. Well, it arrived with good news! Especially since I have not been promoting, writing, or submitting anything while I...
