TIP FOR SEPTEMBER: FIND AWE
cindyphillips Tripping over translation, Chekhov’s Gun, and Other Things I Learned This Week Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more…
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Come Away and Write: Why Your Next Writing Workshop Might Be in Kei Mouth
A workshop with a getaway attached I host small Workshop Getaways for Writers in Kei Mouth, designed for writers who want practical help with their writing but who would also…
THE FIRST-TIME AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION TO PUBLISHING
From Finished Manuscript to Published Book A first-time author’s guide to beta readers, literary agents and ISBNs If this is your first book, the publishing process can seem confusing because…
YOUR BOOK IS UNLIKELY TO BUY YOU A YACHT
In the life of any aspiring author, a book exists almost entirely in the author’s imagination. She’s been wasting time filling a folder full of images for cover ideas. Or…
MY BOT IS THE LOVECHILD OF HECTOR AND GYLES.
A Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device, FRED, has given me back my Fingerspitzengefühl, in this Room Of My Own. That is to say: it (not HE!) exists politely in my life…
There’s many a slip atwixt the bar room and the lecture hall
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, Jul 11, 2025 The Bar Room and the Lecture Hall “It is always nice to see you,” Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to…
GIGO, Predestiny, and the Work Ethic
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, A skip through 10 July in history, 10 July 2025 I’m not playing the Rolling Stones today, but I might have a little dance…
A SHOTGUN, A PREGNANT VIRGIN, AND WOMEN WITH BUCKETS
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, 2 July 2025 Hyannis Port, Mass., July 2 (UPI) – President Kennedy mourned tonight the death of Ernest Hemingway, whom he called one of…
Blondie, Beedi, and our beloved Brothel Creeper-in-drag
from my Substack archives: 1 July 2025 It’s a nice day for music birthdays. There’s Jeff Wayne, turning 82 today, the guy who gave us the prophetic Jeff Wayne’s Musical…
Ambrose Bierce and Mick Ralphs, Wondernauts
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” Ambrose Bierce I told Aggie I almost named him Ambrose, so many years ago, when I thought he was…