Books in which the author is deeply involved and committed — as opposed to authors who only want a shoeshine and shampoo on a marketable pig. Continue reading
Hanging out my shingle as editor 2
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Hanging out my shingle as editor 1
My role is to help you make your book publishable, saleable and promotable. Continue reading
A Recently Discovered letter to J.R.R. Tolkien
Mr Tolkien Balleioll College Oxford Dear John You’ve got a great idea for a story, but it’s far too long. Cut it back to around 200 pages, the length of a standard mass-market paperback. Believe me, that’s the only way … Continue reading
Nine days in England, November 2017
My nine days in England were time-warped. Continue reading
Seymour Hamilton interviewed by Carol Anne Meehan
Interview by Carol Anne Meehan, award-winning radio and tv journalist. We talked mostly about The Astreya Trilogy and The Hippies Who Meant It. Click Here
May I Butt in?
The following is my contribution to an email exchange begun by Bob Bott to which several people contributed, including Peter MacKenzie-Brown, whose blog on the subject can be found as “What Hath God Wrought?” I think it was McLuhan who … Continue reading
What Hath God Wrought?
Peter Mackenzie-Brown published this piece on his blog after participating in an e-mail exchange led by Bob Bott, to which several people contributed, including me. The full text of my offering is under “May I Butt in?” “What Hath God … Continue reading
Glenn Gould at 80
I originally wrote and published this item a few years ago. In upgrading my website, it vanished. Here it is again. Glenn Gould would be 84, if he had not died in 1982 at the age of 50. We all … Continue reading
A Conversation with Jessica Knauss, author of Awash in Talent
Jessica: I’m not sure I would qualify Awash in Talent as an allegory per se, but I certainly intended the Talents to represent differences in society … that tend to be marginalized Continue reading
Alex Morton’s review of The Hippies Who Meant It.
The ones who couldn’t take the calluses quickly headed back to the cities and suburbs fueled by their newfound desire to “live well”.
But there were also those who were in it for real. They were The Hippies Who Meant It. Continue reading