Monthly Archives: March 2012

One of the first and foremost functions of a literary agent is sorting through her slush pile – all those manuscripts that are sent to her, uninvited and unsolicited. Literary agents hate reading through their slush piles for good reason. … Continue reading →

For the most part, I am an uneducated person. My friends would be shocked to hear me say that because they know that I was a full-time university student for ten years. I spent four years earning a B.A., two … Continue reading →

“What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? … Continue reading →

A great many people in this country, if not most, believe that physicians are the “real” doctors and that academics are pretenders. The opposite is true. The word “doctor” is derived from the latin word,  docere, meaning to teach. It has … Continue reading →