Writing Archives - Glenn Harris

Not Just Another Year?

Written by glenn on January 3, 2016 · Leave a Comment

I have this feeling, this premonition, or perhaps it’s just a hope that 2016 is going to be a biggie. Already two of my books, Turnabout is Fatal Play and Decease and Desist, are available in paperback from Amazon. Within the first couple of months of this new year the […]

Going “Real Book”

Written by glenn on November 9, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Let’s get the Breaking News out of the way: The entire McCall-Malone Mystery series is going to be available in print! Which is to say, existing in the real world: On actual paper, available to be bought in a bookstore, checked out of a library, held in your hand, given […]

Editing Can Be Boring, Exciting, Scary, and Fun

Written by glenn on March 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment

So I take a day off from editing to write a blog post about editing. Hmm. I’ll probably regret it tomorrow, when I’m back to editing again, but here goes anyway…. Editing is work. I didn’t even mention that in title, because it’s kind of a given. But, really, it’s […]

My One Big “Stop the Presses” Story

Written by glenn on February 22, 2015 · Leave a Comment

STOP THE PRESSES! It’s a cliché of ‘40s newspaper movies and early TV shows, right? Nobody ever actually yelled “Stop the Presses!” Well, yes, I know of at least one time…. It was the summer of 1967 and I was home in Evansville, Indiana, between getting my degree in […]

Living Young

Written by glenn on October 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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My next birthday will be…old. Actuarially speaking, I could drop dead at any moment. Does that concern me? Are you nuts? Do you expect me to be all Courageous Blasé Guy and say it doesn’t? Of course it concerns me. I mean, we’re talking DEATH here. Finis. Nada more. The […]

My Daily Ritual

Written by glenn on November 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I’m reading a book entitled Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Curry, which is exactly what it sounds like it would be. The revelation (to me) is that so many artists—painters, writers, composers—had almost unvarying routines around which they built their work. A remarkable number of them seem to […]

En Plein Air

Written by glenn on September 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Most people know about plein air painting—painting in the open air, focusing on the natural surroundings. The Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, Oregon, is one of the few—and maybe was the first—to sponsor plein air writing. There’s an annual event, the most recent just concluded, that features […]

The Writing Life

Written by glenn on July 27, 2013 · 2 Comments

I don’t know anything more exciting than starting a new book – nor anything more scary than finishing one. In the beginning there’s a wonderful new story forming in your imagination, growing and blossoming and spreading out like the most beautiful flower you’ve ever seen. (Yes, it’s that good.) There […]

A Meditation on Writing and Publishing

Written by glenn on July 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

So far I’ve written seven novels and published one—soon to be two. I have no agent and no publisher, not least because I’ve rarely sought either one and even then with little real determination. Which raises a couple of questions: Why am I writing? Why have I made so little […]