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  Writing has come a long way since its beginnings as cuneiform messages pressed into soft clay tablets over five thousand years ago....

When I began writing about the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor coed murders of 1967-1969 almost two years ago, I decided on the title In the Shad...

Every writer has had writers' block or will get it. Most of us write because we want to, not because we are forced to. But without se...

One year ago this month, I began my blog - Fornology - and coincidentally this is my one-hundredth post. That means coming up with new co...

In an age where cursive writing is a lost art, most people prefer to print - if they are forced to write at all. But people today usually...

When I found out I had won a Finalist Award in the USA Book News 2011 competition, I felt an immediate sense of accomplishment and validati...

The publishing business has never been easy to break into, but in this brave new world of independent, digital on-line publishing, the busin...

Looking through a newsletter from my publisher, Wheatmark.com , I discovered a free radio booking resource called Radio Guest List . Once yo...

Forty-five years ago, a dark cloud of terror hovered over the college communities of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michi...

I received an interesting letter the other day from a college friend of mine with a forty year old, yellowed news clipping in it dated March...

Being an author is something I've wanted to do since I was in junior high school. I spent more time in the bookmobile than on the sports...

Authors without a powerful publishing house behind them find getting publicity and exposure for their books a slow and expensive process. Fo...

Any publisher or publicist will tell you, having a vibrant and active electronic platform is essential for a successful author. I just finis...

In the digital village, writing a novel is one thing; spreading the word about it is quite another. Now that my novel has been released on...

Early on in the writing of my novel, about six years ago, I tried to get on the industrial complex known as Zug Island , only to be confron...

Yesterday afternoon, I gave my first book club talk, to a group of teachers from the San Diego area. Writing a novel is one thing; speaking ...

Late afternoon on Friday, I get a call from my barber, Janine. "Greg, one of my clients saw the front cover of your novel on my bulle...

Last week, I showed my barber, Janine, the mock up of my novel's front cover, and she placed it up on her bulletin board in her shop. Fr...