"Stephen King once described this perfectly. He imagines novels as castles, and believes that there is often only one right way into the castle. You might sneak in a side window, only to fall on a bed of nails. You might leap over the moat, only to have an alligator lunge up and chomp you on the butt. You might scale a wall, only to have Bea Arthur pour a vat of boiling oil on you (Bea Arthur scares me)."
That's journalist, editor of the anthology Damn Near Dead anthology, and blogger Duane Swierczynski beating a metaphor to death--in a good way. He stopped by our site in 2006, doling out advice he'd learned while writing his novel The Blond and while editing Philadelphia City Paper.
Over the course of one hardboiled week, he taught us about everything.
Including, How To Be a Journalist in a Difficult Time for Journalism.
And then, How To Wrestle a Book Deal.
After that, How to Have Accidental Non-Fiction Career.
Followed by How To Put Together a Mystery Anthology.
And ending with Building an Online Community.
What's going on? I'm on vacation this week, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
To keep you happy while I travel far, far, far from the city, I'm posting some of my favorite traveling writer interviews I've collected at The Publishing Spot--building a complete interview library in the process.
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