by Cooper West | Sep 21, 2013 | Modus Operandi, Writing
I graduated with my master’s degree just about a year ago. As I’ve talked about before, it was the end of a 2+ year journey that started with my divorce in 2010 (we divorced in April, I started grad school that August). But let’s face it: 2012 is SO...
by Cooper West | Aug 26, 2013 | Modus Operandi, Writing
I was asked last week if I was interested in a job. This would be a job as the director of the same department I’ve worked in part-time through most of my graduate degree studies, which makes it a “real” professional position in my field, i.e. a job...
by Cooper West | Aug 20, 2013 | Announcements!, Writing Update
Damaged Goods, my latest contemporary M/M story, has been submitted! This means I now wait around forever while my publisher decides if they want to option it or not. I’m not nervous about that, nope. Not me. Nope. *whistles* Okay, “forever” is...
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 4, 2013 | Writing Process
My personal goal in life is to do ALL THE THINGS. Too much? It really is, unfortunately. I’m the kind of person who sets outrageously unrealistic goals for myself, the kind of goals that make people squint at me and wonder if I’m drunk. When of course I...
