by Cooper West | Aug 24, 2013 | Editorial
I am apparently the last person to know this, but on August 8th, Barbara Mertz died at the age of 86. She wrote under her own name but the name I knew her best was Elizabeth Peters, author of the Amelia Peabody book series. I was introduced to her about ten years...
by Cooper West | Aug 18, 2013 | Editorial, Modus Operandi
I just turned 44 earlier this week, and I’m SO proud of that. I tell everyone. It is a triumph that I made it at all, much less made it as a successful (if newbie) romance author who just finished her master’s degree and…wow, so many other things! I...
by Cooper West | Aug 11, 2013 | Editorial, Writing
Wayyyy back in about 1998, I think, I started a story I called “Wraith Bait.” (This was before SGA, so no, nothing to do with that.) I don’t even have the digital files for it anymore, just printouts of what I was working on. Like most of my aborted...
by Cooper West | Aug 8, 2013 | Editorial
A post by author Lisa Morton (whom I will NOT link to from here) and the various reactions around the interwebz about it, most perfectly represented by John Scalzi’s rebuttal, has been making the rounds within the communities of writers I belong to. And it’s really,...
by Cooper West | Aug 1, 2013 | Editorial, Modus Operandi
What is it that I want out of life? What do you want out of life? I talked about this last week in my post about the definition of success and wealth, and Sarah Madison just wrote about her own insights into developing her writing life, and my brother is discovering...
by Cooper West | Jul 31, 2013 | Editorial, Writing Process
The act of writing is a touchy subject for writers to talk about, even if we seem to talk about it endlessly (sorry?). What concerns me is why readers read what we write. Those two subjects are actually related. Porter Anderson recently wrote a thought-provoking post...
