I've had the occasion to talk to several authors lately whose books have been published in foreign countries, and we have something in common – confusion. Our agents and sub-agents do all the work and we get books with words we don't understand to put on our...

One of the panels I took part in at the YA-hoo Festival at Chattanooga State over the weekend involved the writing process. Invariably, that discussion leads to "Where is the best place to write?" An upstairs room. A cruise ship. A coffee shop. The answers were as...

Audio engineers, if they so choose, can make just about any sputtering noise sound like a well-oiled machine. I have heard my stutter on a rebroadcast miraculously wiped clean of all its hesitations, prolongations and repetitions. It sounds much better, but it’s not...