by Tom Hogan | Jul 14, 2021 | So You Want to Be a Writer, Inspiration, Writing
A series of coincidences leads to the experience of a lifetime. My first attempt at being a full-time writer came during graduate school. Though I was getting a Ph.D. in Biblical Archaeology, I was writing a novel on the side. Through an amazing set of...
by Tom Hogan | Apr 28, 2021 | Inspiration, Writing
Naming, whether it’s your kids, your company, or your novel, is a tricky thing. For example, if we’d had children in our 20s, a boy would have (cleverly and ironically) been named Shemp (the much underappreciated fourth Stooge) and a daughter would have been named...
by Tom Hogan | Apr 20, 2021 | So You Want to Be a Writer
Would-be authors are under the impression that there are only two routes to bringing their book to market: traditional publishing and self-publishing. But there is actually a third route. It’s a subset of the self-publishing route. Call it “vanity publishing.” Let’s...