Joe Beernink
Author of NOWHERE WILD, NOWHERE HOME
I haven’t been writing here lately, because I’ve been writing elsewhere a lot lately. As in my latest novel. I’m hovering around the 35000 word mark, which in the world of...
I’ll start off with a very funny exchange between my wife and Reece, as mommy was changing a very poopy diaper last Friday. “That’s a big poop, Reecie.” “No mommy, it’s...
I hit the wall last weekend. I’d read myself into a stupor. I tried to pick up a new book after finishing ‘The Motion of the Ocean’, but my give a...
I wrote my first novel in college, living in a bachelor apartment in Toronto near York University in 1993. It was a very small place, 440 square feet with faux parquet...
I’ve spent a lot of time editing the last few months, and have done little new writing. I’ve been trying to get the two completed books knocked into shape so I...
I haven’t blogged in a whole week because I’ve been knee deep in editing ‘The Forgotten Road’, integrating some changes suggested by the agent who rejected me a week or so...
The last 72 hours has been a rollercoaster for my writing. I have resumed sending out query letters for ‘The Forgotten Road’. Writers who have been doing this a while, learn...
This morning I finished re-reading Stephen King’s book ‘On Writing’. Like I’ve said previously, I don’t reread books too often, but this one I read a couple of years ago (maybe...
Where to start… where to start? I can’t cover everything in one entry, so I’ll make a series of short entries for each topic that comes to mind. No one wants...
It seems to be a tradition for me to wrap up an edit on a book on the last day of December. I recently put the finishing touches on ‘Nowhere Home’,...
Joe Beernink 