Authors Guild Staff Attorney Umair Kazi with my book
Authors Guild Staff Attorney Umair Kazi and me
With Umair Kazi, staff attorney at the Authors Guild, and my novel THE MARTIN LUTHER KING MITZVAH, last night at the Authors Guild Los Angeles Chapter meeting. Umair has been of great help to me with legal advice on publishing. Join the Authors Guild, if you can, and if you quality. Umair gave a great talk about books contracts and other things.
Praise for my fiction
Recently, Andrea Davis Pinkney vice president and editor-at-large at Scholastic Books told me, “You always have such intriguing submissions.” Intriguing submissions lead to intriguing published books. Thanks for the compliment, Andrea.
And today, Jeremy Davies, editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, one of the top literary publishers in the world, said that I write “well-constructed, no nonsense fiction.” Wow, thanks Jeremy!
Me and THE MARTIN LUTHER KING MITZVAH at an Authors Guild meeting in Santa Monica
At the SCBWI Writer’s Day 2019
It’s valuable to attend a conference from time to time, but a writer’s time is best spent reading and writing. You have to keep learning and make your work better and better. In today’s world, everybody is selling something, but it’s great to do the work first.
Northern Mockingbird building a nest in my yard
