Remembering a workshop I did once

May 272009
 
 May 27, 2009  Business of writing, Personal No Responses »

I posted this on the Write! Canada website today. Even if you aren't a writer, you might find it a fun read. In the fall of 1995, when Audrey Dorsch resigned as the editor of Faith Today and director of the God Uses Ink Conference, I was part of the planning committee. Even though Faith Today was short-staffed and assistant editor Marianne Meed Ward knew she could not handle the workload of both putting out the magazine and organizing the conference, we decided to go ahead and hold the 1996 conference. Larry Matthews, who had been part of the committee, [ Read more...]

The nasty practice of ghost-writing

Feb 042007
 
 February 4, 2007  Business of writing, Writing 1 Response »

I just read Linda Hall’ s post at TWGauthors.blogspot.com and dug out this message I’d sent to a listserve I’m on last June. Thought it was relevant. As a reader, I think work-for-hire or ghosted books or articles that don’t give appropriate credit to the actual writer are morally and ethically wrong. It is lying and when I find out the truth, I feel cheated. I absolutely hate it. As a writer, I feel even more strongly about it. :) I’ve mentioned to a few nonwriters that certain well-known people don’t write their own books, and every single one of [ Read more...]