Category Archives: Publishing Commentary
“Overnight” Success Takes About 10 Years
The writer’s road is paved with pot holes and detours. Unless you’re a well-established author, a celebrity, or a politician, where publishing houses beat down your door with offers of huge contracts and advances, most writers are simply doing our best to just keep going. I spent eight years writing my first novel “Red Wine …
Author Raven West 
The Olympics and the Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer
Raven West ♦ December 13, 2009 ♦ Leave a comment
Watching the previews of the 2012 Summer Olympics made me realize how very much alone we, as writers are in own field of dreams. Each athlete has personal stories to tell about coaches, teammates, family, friends and sometimes entire towns cheering them on. When they had doubts, when they fell on the ice, or landed …
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