“Paul McCartney is downstairs and will do a quick meet-and-greet with photos, if you hurry.” That’s what I heard one day when I worked...

Here's a remembrance from a time I spent a "big birthday" at a Beverly Hills spa, a day in which I was mostly broke and brokenhearted. I...

What defines your writing style? I rarely revert to Wikipedia for the best definitions, but I do like the simplicity of this: “Beyond the...

If you’ve ever sent out query letters to agents, you know the pain you feel when you get rejection letters back. It’s similar to the pain...

Persistence. Quite a word. The website etymonline.com tells us that the word originated in the 1540s from the French and Latin, meaning...

The wonderful editors at Gyroscope Review gave their published poets a chance to read three poems that had been published anywhere, not...

What happens if you don’t follow your dreams? Researchers from Cornell University and the New School for Social Research found that...

Months passed. I published a personal essay in The Los Angeles Times, as well as poems in various journals and was a runner-up in a...

In another year or so, I exhumed my book proposal and thought it good enough to send to another New York agent. It worked — again....

One day, long ago, I sat on the floor in my apartment in Tempe, Arizona, surrounded by notes, outlines, and a copy of a well-known novel...