Authority Through AuthorshipAugust 21, 2026
Library talks are the easiest events a local author can get, and the audiences engage harder than bookstore crowds. Getting into the collection is a separate process with different rules.
HistoryAugust 21, 2026
A man built an eight-story pink hotel on St. Pete Beach because a woman in Spain was forbidden to marry him. It opened in 1928, three hundred percent over budget, and the Fitzgeralds spent a week there in 1930.
Authority Through AuthorshipAugust 21, 2026
For fifty years in Ybor City, cigar workers paid a man out of their own wages to sit on a platform and read novels aloud while they worked. They elected him, voted on the books, and struck when the owners…
HistoryAugust 21, 2026
Safety Harbor has more workable places to write than towns four times its size. The library for long stretches, the waterfront for the stuck paragraph, Philippe Park for the structural think.
Authority Through AuthorshipAugust 21, 2026
Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg in 1969 at forty-seven, in a concrete block ranch house in Disston Heights, leaving an estate valued at ninety-one dollars. On the Road has never stopped selling.
HistoryAugust 21, 2026
The East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor is where the East Lake Writers' Workshop met, in a side room off the main floor, and where I sat every other week for years while Deanna Bennett ran the table.
Memoir WritingAugust 21, 2026
The Clearwater Main Library is a landmark building with maker studios, a digitization station, and a harbor view. It is also closed on weekends, and part of it may become something else.
HistoryAugust 21, 2026
The Safety Harbor Public Library began in 1938 with a hundred books and $2.35 raised at a tea party. It is now open seven days a week and is the best free workspace in town for anyone writing a book.
Becoming a GhostwriterFebruary 10, 2026
Yesterday a client stood up at an event and thanked me publicly for his book, and I got tears in my eyes, because in 54+ projects the clients who have done that fit on one hand. The recognition is rare…
GhostwritingAugust 17, 2023
Australian author and ghostwriter Terri Tonkin on fulfilling her writing dream at 60, her conversational ghostwriting method, pricing the work, and why everyone has a story to tell.
collaborationSeptember 26, 2018
Fantasy author Mercedes Lackey on writing 136 books, collaborating with Anne McCaffrey and Andre Norton, building battle scenes and bird characters, and the hard economics of the writing life.
Book MarketingAugust 30, 2018
Fantasy author Suzanna Linton on her Stories of Loss series, building a brand around your name, the book marketing that actually works, and the discipline of full-time writing.
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