Mirka Muse

“Should I pay to be published?”   Not a week goes by when I don’t bump into some variation of this question. I’m newly baffled by it be...

“If a person feels he can’t communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.”                                                      ...

I thought that since I am now the Grand Maven of Authorly Events, having just had my very first book reading/talk/signing party, I can b...

Or What’s REAL anyway? A writing colleague asked the other day, “is an E-book not a real book?” She had a reason to ask it th...

As blogosphere joins most other spheres in New Year’s lists and resolutions, I’m determined not to. Oh, I can’t beat them, but I won’t joi...

Our family has established our own Jewish tradition for Christmas, inspired by my childhood in west Jerusalem in the early sixties. We ...

Because one blogger compared my book to it, and another writer thought The Voice of Thunder belonged on the bookshelf along side it, I a...

From our home to yours, taken moments ago...

Dieters and health fanatics, beware. This is not a post for you. An acquaintance passed on to me what she felt was a fantastic new reci...

With all the angst, tribulations, anguish and trials writers go through on the road to publication, it’s no wonder we whine, cuss, and e...

A few days ago one of the kid-lit writers on my favorite chat-board asked if there was a code to decipher the ubiquitous rejections that s...

When I first began querying editors with what was then a story picture book called The Voice of Thunder , my query included the word tim...

A person much smarter than I am said this: “ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth ma...

NaNoWriMo, that Klingon-ish sounding word, is setting the American writing world on fire. Haven’t heard? Think I’m kidding? Think I slippe...

On one of the kid-lit writers’ chat boards, a multi-published author was lamenting her lot. Yes, she has a great agent, a strong major pub...

We’ve all heard we must not let others define us. But last Saturday I did, and it was one of those * moments .* Whatever you may say about...

Some years ago, when thought of writing with the intention to publish was still a private one, I got the best advice. This bit of advice s...

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx   Let me linger wit...

I generally avoid temptation, unless I can’t resist it. I should avoid bookstores when money is tight. I always tell myself I’ll just...

On the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, we are to ask others for forgiveness for offenses committed in the past year. “If...