Malcolm R. Campbell's Page

"Writers are what they genuinely are only when they are at work in the silent and instinctual cell of ghostly solitude, and never when they are out industriously chatting on the terrace." -- Cynthia Ozick in "Writers, Visible and Invisible"

When you converse with a writer in a bar, subway, jail cell, battlefield, brothel or terrace, you're dreaming, drunk, on drugs, having a mystical experience, or at best talking to a holograph. The actual writer, to the extent he exists at all, is far away dr… Continue

Several days ago, Floyd Orr's "POD Book Reviews & More" celebrated its second anniversary. The primary intend ot the site--which initially focused only on iUniverse books--is to provide a viable forum for POD reviews.

My book THE SUN SINGER was reviewed there a couple of years ago and I have since joined the reviewer team. While the site especially welcomes POD and other self-published books, it has recently expanded to include reviews of traditionally published books.

Take a look at the s… Continue

If I ever found a magic lamp with a friendly genie inside, I would ask him/her to take the hassle out of publisher stalking. Best case, when I finish a novel, some magic person comes along and zooms off with the MS, then returns saying, "Malcolm, HarperCollins is offering $1.5 million in an advance against royalties and wants to know if that's enough."

I began work on "Garden of Heaven" in 1993, tossed it in a box, took it out, shoved it in another box, finally learning enough to under

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A friend of mine has just started a new blog that's going to focus on books and films. Both of us maintained blogs in another blogging community that went under. (I promise, it wasn't out fault!)

She's started out with posts that focus on a sense of place and on setting one's novel properly with a time period.

To check it out, click here.

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