Saturday April 20th 2019 looks to be a fun day! I’ll be signing books at Barnes & Noble’s store at the Christiana Mall, Newark, DE. There will be fellow authors from the Write Group: Kennett Square and the cafe will be open! It’s all good. More information can be found at the B&N site. It …
Every author goes through the fear and terror of working with an editor. Sometimes it feels good to see pages of your words without a single correction. comment, or suggested change. But that doesn’t happen often. My wife, Grace, does my editing. My writing is better for it. We’re still married. All is …
Call him Michael. He was The Most Persistent of Mice. I saw him once, one evening, behind the coffeemaker. Good choice; it’s where I go first in the kitchen. I immediately deployed our old, beaten-up, humane, definitely no-kill mousetrap. I even loaded it with all-natural, organic, low-sodium peanut butter. Nothing but the best for our …
I visited Padstow in Cornwall, a few years ago now, to see the famous dancing. It was odd. It was also very British, but not in the Changing of the Guard or the Chelsea Flower Show sense. It was earthy, deeply historical, primitive, and wonderful. The drum beat is hypnotic and the dancing doesn’t stop. …
Here at EdCharlton.com we’re using the website building utility/platform called WordPress. It’s a thing of constant wonder. The more one learns, the less one knows. I could go into long and detailed descriptions of the trials and tribulations of a website owner, of the plugins and the thumbnails, of HTML and CSS, but perhaps a …
NoNoNoNo – Why I hate NaNoWriMo There are so many things to be wary of. Here are few of the things I worry about! The Event Weren’t you writing anyway? What’s the fuss about one month? Write every month, damn it! The Goal Tell me again, what are you writing? A complete novel? I mean, …