ABOUT THE AUTHOR
George Eckel was a top-ten bestselling author for New Riders, an imprint of Macmillan. He’s a produced playwright and has over 20 years of professional writing experience. After graduate work at UC Berkeley, he became a veteran of Silicon Valley. He was on the first cloud computing team at Amazon and is probably the only author who at one time owned 19 standard poodles. Read more.
LATEST POSTS
Scientists in Australia are now proposing a technique to make 5000 particles disappear from one place and appear almost immediately somewhere else.
Jon Favreau, President Obama’s former director of speech writing, recently visited with the Corporate Communications team at Intuit’s headquarters and gave a presentation on How Not to Speak Bul#*@!. What he said pertains to fiction writers as much as it does to speechwriters. Here are his 5 tips to make your writing more persuasive and inspiring.
Choosing your next book, movie or TV show was less of a problem when there were only 3 or 4 television stations, studios put out only 85 films a year, and publishing houses turned out, what, 1000 books a year? Now, we have hundreds of channels, literally millions of new books each year and I-don't-know-how-many movies with Amazon, Netflix and the rest throwing in. Consequently, we now have everyone telling us what to read/watch/digest next.
I'm not bipolar but I seem to be about my writing. One day I think I'm channeling Hemingway. The next I'm clear that what I wrote is awful. The next day, I'm sure that... and so it goes.
I received a novel back from my editor yesterday and I haven't been able to take my eyes off of her work. Out of 99000 words, she cut 17000. LOL! I'm accepting about 95% of her edits, which amazes me because I KNEW before I sent her the novel that it was already perfect. :-)
PRAISE FOR
FINDING CENTER STAGE
Read what a former editor of Simon and Schuster has to say about Finding Center Stage. Read more.
LATEST NEWS
David is a perennial New York Time's best selling author who has just come out with his latest novel, The Last Mile. I chatted with David in New York.
Today we achieved over 20,000 followers on Twitter for NUMBERED, @gheckelauthor, and over 15,000 followers for FINDING CENTER STAGE, @eckelAuthor! Great to connect with so many!