by miked | May 1, 2013 | Writing
I’m only 46 years old, yet it’s amazing the changes I’ve seen in technology with regard to the writing profession in my thirty years in the business. When I interviewed to be a member of the part-time sports department staff at the Green Bay Press-Gazette in 1979, I...
by miked | May 1, 2013 | Writing
I can still remember the day, thirty years ago last week, when I was hired as a part-time member of the Green Bay Press-Gazette sports department. It was a month past my sixteenth birthday, and I was paid a whopping (for that time) $4.50 an hour to take phone calls...
by miked | May 1, 2013 | Author, Books, Publishing
Every once in a while – OK, more often than you’d think – being an extrovert pays dividends. That was the case in early December 2007, when I was introduced through a third party to Tracy Ertl, owner of TitleTown Publishing, while waiting through a fog delay at the...
by miked | May 1, 2013 | Author, Books, Writing
No one tells you this in “author school,” but writing a manuscript is the easy part of the book business. That part you can control; it’s getting a publisher to think enough of your project to invest time and money in bringing it to reality that’s the challenge. Jerry...
by miked | May 1, 2013 | Books, Writing
Despite the fact I’ve been a professional writer for 30 years, I never set out to be an author. My world was newspapers, magazines, corporate communications and video scripts – the type of projects in which someone with a limited attention span can find comfort. That...
