All I Want For Christmas ~ Books I Will Buy For Myself If I Have To

My Christmas gift exchange list gets shorter every year, but still I dream of the presents I would like to receive. (I am a bit of a present baby, truth be told.) So below I am making a short list of the books I would like for Christmas–and if I don’t receive them from anyone, […]

On Vanity, Buddies, and Getting it Between Covers

This is a shared post by one of our View From the Keyboard contributors, Geoff Hyatt. As corporate publishers and even hard-working, fighting-the-good-fight independent publishers are less able to sink resources in a title that may not turn a profit, the idea of self-publishing can become more appealing to a greater number of writers than ever before. The […]

Geoff Hyatt Scrambles Reality ~ Another View from the Keyboard

I met Geoff Hyatt some years ago when he was a new MFA candidate in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago, and I was his teacher. Ever have one of those encounters with someone who you can tell right away is going to go places? This was clear with Geoff. His work, even early on, […]