A Conversation With Rob Costelloe, Author Of Coinage Of Commitment, A Romance About Higher Love From A Man’s Perspective

Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Rob Costelloe, author of Coinage of Commitment.
Good day Rob and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm: When did your passion for writing begin? What keeps you going?
Rob: I wrote earlier in life, including a teeth-cutting first novel, then I abandoned [...]

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‘I Can Write A Book In A Weekend,’ And Five Other Annoying Things Beginners Say

Since every literate person can write, most people think they can be writers. Interestingly enough, we all can speak quite well, but few of us would deem ourselves ‘speakers.’ However, this prevalent belief encourages beginners to say the oddest things that make professional writers want to cringe (or preferably strangle them with a thin wire). [...]

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A Man Writing Love Stories In A Woman’s Publishing World

My publishing journey has been unusual enough that friends and publicists alike have suggested I write about it, especially the part about being a man writing love stories in a woman’s genre. But it’s not just the genre. The whole publishing and agency world I encountered was dominated by women. Sound interesting enough? Okay. There’s [...]

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A Few Dilemmas Of The Writing Journey

Authoring as a Risk-Taking Endeavor
Being an unpublished novelist poses all sorts of dilemmas. Writing is entrepreneurial in nature, more than most people realize, and it is fraught with make or break decisions. Which side of the political spectrum do you show yourself? Do you embellish this or that social issue, perhaps the one most fashionable, [...]

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A Conversation With Rob Costelloe, Author Of Coinage Of Commitment, A Romance About Higher Love From A Man’s Perspective

Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Rob Costelloe, author of Coinage of Commitment.
Good day Rob and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm: When did your passion for writing begin? What keeps you going?
Rob: I wrote earlier in life, including a teeth-cutting first novel, then I abandoned [...]

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‘I Can Write A Book In A Weekend,’ And Five Other Annoying Things Beginners Say

Since every literate person can write, most people think they can be writers. Interestingly enough, we all can speak quite well, but few of us would deem ourselves ‘speakers.’ However, this prevalent belief encourages beginners to say the oddest things that make professional writers want to cringe (or preferably strangle them with a thin wire). [...]

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