Popular Fiction and Quality Fiction

Fiction that writers and publishers shower praise on and those which soar up the bestseller lists are rarely the same. I do believe that there is value in both, but they are of completely different types. Taste and preference impact our attitudes and buying patterns. It is a mistake to think that there is a solid thing as "good writing." While some of us still love the classics (Austin, Shakespeare,...

Starting New

New ideas do strike me. I have had a hard time focusing on them, but now the time comes. I do want to be published. I don't know how long Silver Mask or Traitor Born will take to get there. I have been playing with a bunch of new (no-Don-Yin) ideas. But depression due to joblessness has attacked my self-confidence and I haven't finished a draft of either. So here is my new effort: off Don-Yin...