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July 2010

July 21, 2010

Twelve Years of Rejected Short Stories, And Then This!

The other day I found on my Facebook page a brief supportive note from a...

July 07, 2010

What Book Publishers Want Most, But Can’t Have

A continuation of the conversation I started with yesterday's My New Book Has Taken Over...

July 06, 2010

My New Book Has Taken Over My Head

What I should do is kill this blog. It's about my only hope for finishing...

February 2010

February 20, 2010

My Interview with Writer’s Digest

About three months after my book Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang, came out, Writer's...

June 2009

June 04, 2009

I Don’t See How I Could Possibly Be Famouser

I am happy to report that out of the literally tens of millions of documents...

May 2009

May 31, 2009

Let Me Entertain You; Let Me Make You Smile

[scribd id=15978488 key=key-bb0pu42q1iod1mg5xri] I’ve bundled into an e-book 35 of my funniest blog essays,...

April 2009

April 22, 2009

My Breakfast With My Christian Book Agent

In which I pitch to my agent two SUPERB ideas for Christian books: "The Shaq,"...

September 2008

September 19, 2008

Writers: Don’t Self-Publish; My Blogging Advice Bites

In response to my recent post, Overcoming The Harsh Realities of Book Publishing, a reader (hello, "Jim...

September 17, 2008

Overcoming The Harsh Realities of Book Publishing

On Saturday, September 26, I'll be conducting a workshop at the annual San Diego Christian Writers...

March 2008

March 16, 2008

“Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang” Sold to Korean Publisher

One minute you're staring vacantly at your computer fleetingly wondering how long it's been since you...

January 2008

January 26, 2008

My Big Week in Christian Book Publishing

The book business is reeeeeeeeeeeeeally slow; it is like unto the rest of our media as...

August 2007

August 15, 2007

About Buying “I’m OK–You’re Not.” (And some other … babbling, basically.)

In response to some (lovely) e-mails I've received, I'd like to say that everything you...

August 03, 2007

And Now For Someone Completely Different

Hi. I'm Lucas Smith. I promise I'm not Jack Bauer in disguise. Or a hippy serial...

August 02, 2007

Sprechen zie Penguins?

Yesterday I received in the mail a copy of DRAN, a thick, glossy German magazine for...

July 2007

July 08, 2007

Modesty. Bragging. Wanting to inform. Who can tell them apart?

The Midwest Book Review just published a review of my humble tome, I'm OK--You're Not: The...

July 05, 2007

Blogger lagger, I (and a little about book publishing)

You know how my blogs are always really funny, or really profound, or really both?...