by Jan Bear | Jan 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
Greetings on Theophany Once upon a time, many years ago, when I hadn’t chosen a number of the roads I’ve since chosen, I thought I would write a book about the Orthodox view of the cosmos. As a hiker and backpacker, a lover of solitude and the songs of...
by Jan Bear | Jan 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
Wait. That’s not the way the song goes, but it’s frequently the way a writer’s life goes. That’s why a writer needs to be bull-headed to the point of stupidity. You don’t like my book? Well, that shows what you know. Which is why...
by Jan Bear | Jan 3, 2004 | Uncategorized
The rabbit blog doesn’t seem to be updated very often, and the questions do have a tendency (noted in the text) to go on and on, and yet scrolling down to the answer to the Dec. 1, 2003, question, one finds some really good advice for writers: 1. Use your...
by Jan Bear | Jan 3, 2004 | Uncategorized
Here’s a quirky listing of U.S. and U.K. agents, along with candid comments and snippets of rejection letters. Everyone Who’s Anyone in Trade Publishing. I’m going to put it over on my writing links so that I can find it later.
by Jan Bear | Jan 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Nona C. died Dec. 31. It’s a simple sentence that closes the book on a life of nearly 80 years. She was half Aleut and grew up in Kodiak, near the island home of St. Herman, a holy man and early Russian missionary to Alaska. Although she lived here in...