BluewaterPress Blog

I have not been blogging, because of work with my publishing company. I have been editing projects, organizing workflow, marketing, and giving advice to many would be authors and finally, after seven years in the business, finally got around to publishing a book of my own. Check it out! This is a book of the aviation essays that have appeared in this blog. I put the project together for aviators who like to read, but not necessarily from an iPad or computer. There are those of us, who could probably be best described as bibliophiles (or dinosaurs), who still love...

How did I get here? Many times, I must ask myself, am I a writing pilot, or a flying writer? When I was in second grade, just getting a handle on reading, I remember standing in the hallway of our house in Tampa holding a book, a children’s book, Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales. The unique thing about this book was that my uncle, James Caraway, illustrated it. My mother was doing the laundry again, a seemingly endless task with four young children. Holding the book, I looked at her and asked, “Mom, the people who write these books, do they...

These blogs about writing were originally posted to my personal blog at joeclarksblog.com. I have transferred them here for readers and writers who are interested in more information about the writing life. I am slowly migrating the work so topics which are not hyperlinked yet, are not available. But they're coming! Experience, Posted February 22, 2020   Finally! Posted August 4, 2015   Typewriters Posted April 13, 2014   Writing & Selling Books Posted December 28, 2013   Great Writers Dying Too Young Posted October 3, 2013   Praise and Insults by Hemingway Posted March 21, 2013   Coffee &...

Sniff the wind. Can you smell it? It is very faint, but it is there. It is the odor of a completely new change coming to the publishing industry. More succinctly, the slight smell on the wind is the fear of the large publishing houses. And can you hear the sound? It, too, is very quiet, almost no more than a whisper.  It is the sound of all the small, independent publishers. They are talking in low voices, making plans. They are also licking their lips. They know. Their time is coming; as the large publishers are certain to die...