THE MEDITERRANEAN   I’ve been keeping a journal of the last week’s travels, but haven’t had a chance to post a blog until now.  The cruise ship’s internet connection is much too slow to upload photos; I’ll post highlights when we’re back in the US.   ITALY Writing this initial report on our first evening aboard the cruise ship; Rebecca is sound asleep, and we have to get up very early tomorrow for a long day tour of Naples, Pompeii, and Capri. Two days before leaving Colorado for Rome, nearly a foot of snow whomped the Denver area, bad enough...
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Over the years, Rebecca and I have taught thousands of students in various writing workshops, and many of the attendees have gone on to become successful bestselling authors themselves.  Many of you have listened to us lecture at DragonCon or other conventions, and we've given our seminar on "Things I Wish Some Pro Had Told Me When I Was Starting out" for many years at the Writers of the Future workshop. Together with three other international bestselling authors—Dave Wolverton, Brandon Sanderson, and Eric Flint—we are staging an intense no-nonsense, nuts & bolts series of writing seminars in the Los Angeles...
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