Dennis Cass is a writer, journalist, teacher, book doctor and also really funny. His first book, HEAD CASE: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain, is out in paperback and he’s started a Website to promote it. He also created this short video on YouTube that skewers all the Internet promotional […]
"Marley & Me" author interview
Freelance writer Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell interviews Marley & Me author John Grogan today on her blog for writers, K.C.’s Write for You. Grogan worked as a newspaper columnist and magazine editor before writing the book, which spent 76 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In their Q&A, Grogan explains how keeping a journal helped […]
You are what you read
They say you are what you eat. I say, you are what you read. If you want to be a reporter, you have to read the news. That used to mean reading a newspaper every morning, or even two or three. Now you can get your daily dose of news online. I’m agnostic on that […]
Adaptations
The venerable PBS Sunday night miniseries Masterpiece Theater is mounting a Jane Austen retrospective, airing new and old versions of made-for-TV movies of all of her novels. It’s a big deal for Austen’s legion of fans, but let’s hope the first production isn’t representative of things to come. The version of Persuasion that aired on […]