by LB | Dec 1, 2013 | For Writers
Every writer finds the question “Where do you get your ideas?”annoying, even insulting in its presupposition that the idea’s all there is to it. Shakespeare got most of HIS ideas from other writers; do you think it was the idea of it that enabled him...
by LB | Nov 26, 2013 | For Writers, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
I think I ought to get David Trevor to write all my newsletters. Yesterday morning an appeal from an Australian reader sent him searching for a long-lost box of Write For Your Life, the sole survivors from 1986. Around noon I sent out a newsletter he’d written,...
by LB | Nov 20, 2013 | The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
A glitch is still a glitch, and adding photos to the listing of the Limited Edition of The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons turned out to be impossible. They would upload just fine, and then they’d disappear somewhere in the posting process. I found a work-around,...
by LB | Nov 18, 2013 | The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
I spent much of the weekend preparing the limitation pages (also sometimes known as signature sheets) for the Limited Collector Edition of The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons.This is a four-step process: sign them, affix the custom postage stamp, apply the custom...
by LB | Nov 14, 2013 | Jill Emerson
Here’s an email I received the other day: “How very nice of you to send along what must be one of the first copies of The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons! I look forward to getting acquainted with Bernie. And I must say, the book itself is very...