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Chapter 1 of the New Story, Unwritten

A "Bad Review" - Not That Bad
I was reading a recent New York Times article about how author Alice Hoffman, in response to a Boston Globe review of her latest book, hit back through her Twitter account.Reviewing the book for The Boston Globe on Sunday, Roberta Silman wrote: “This new novel lacks the spark of the earlier work. Its vision, characters, and even the prose seem tired.” In a series of Twitter posts, Ms. Hoffman

Taking a Step Back
Well, let's go ahead and chalk that up to a failed experiment.It turns out that instead of spurring my creativity by setting a release date for Stories from the Forester: Volume 1, it apparently drove my writer's block to the point where I wasn't even adding blog posts on a regular basis...anywhere!Well, hopefully, this wave has stopped. I have been adding blog posts for the TOG Solutions site.

Write What You Know - Cleveland Edition
For many of the great writers, it has always been a matter of drawing inspiration from their previous experiences and places that they know best.It makes sense. For example, many of Stephen King's stories center around the fictional town of Castle Rock, no doubt and homage to the New England setting where he grew up and still resides.For me, of course, that place is Cleveland, and, even more so,

New Release Date for Volume 1: July 25, 2009
This shouldn't really surprise anyone.As I continue to stare at a blank screen where a chapter of Unwritten should be, I have come to the realization (as if it wasn't already realized in my April 20th post!) that there's really no chance in hell that Stories from the Forester: Volume 1 will be completely ready for public consumption on June 21, 2009, as promised.But fear not. While visions of

My Book is Available? Really? Where?
Before you keep reading, go ahead and search for Flagrant Foul on any other book site besides Amazon...Now, if you found it somewhere else, you clearly have been eyesight than I do.For months, since I slapped an ISBN on the Foul as part of Published by Lulu, I at least figured that the cycle would have come around where it would be all over the place.And then I came to a startling discovery.One