A news flash from LB’s Invaluable Assistant

Um, that would be me. I just helped proofread Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel, which we’ll be publishing next month, and that’s how he referred to me. “David Trevor, my Invaluable Assistant.” Neat! I’ll rush this because it...

Staying up late with Evan Tanner

The other day, my Talkwalker alert let me know that the third Evan Tanner novel, Tanner’s Twelve Swingers, had been reviewed online. Now it’s true that the book, like its seven companions, is very much in print, and has been on offer from one publisher or...

False modesty is better than no modesty at all…

The professional backwater of anthologist is ideal for an antiquated scribbler. I get to add new books to the shelves, with all the attendant ego gratification that my name on a book cover still provides me, but am spared the need to sit down and actually write...

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

You don’t have to believe in coincidence to be struck by the way things tend to coincide. I’ve been busy these days, working on an expanded and updated edition of Writing the Novel from Plot to Print. The book’s been a leader in its field since 1978,...

Pants on fire!

David Trevor here. (But that’s obvious. My prose isn’t as smooth as LB’s, or anywhere near as uplifting as Erin’s. Deal with it.) A little history, okay? In 1976 LB started writing a fiction column for Writers Digest, and it ran monthly for...