This Writing Life

Jim Hines, a science fiction author, has been collecting some data on how professional novelists broke into the profession. The goal of the survey was to [...] use actual data to confirm or bust some of the myths about making it as a novelist. Some interesting data, and some surprises. ► Jim C. Hines » [...]

Roger Morris, guesting at Nik Perring’s blog, writes movingly on rejection: I’ve been writing all my life, and desperately trying to get published for over half of it. What this means is that I have been living with rejection for years. And years. And years. You know, when you spend so long living with something, [...]