Nicholas Wardigo

Tag: fiction

  • The Cutler Initiative

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    I probably should have done this last week, but I had a fun time at Joy Cutler’s reading last Monday at the Drake’s reading series.  I already pointed out all the players in my last post, so I won’t bother here, but the short of it is that they were all really good.  Also, I…

  • Push to Publish 2015

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    So, two weekends ago saw the comings and goings of Push to Publish 2015, the annual soiree at Rosemont College that pits writers against agents in a Mad-Max-style battle for dominance across a post-apocalyptic Australian desert.  “Just walk away!” howled agent Gina Panettieri.  “Just walk away, and we will allow you to live!” Nothing really…

  • The Society that Shall Not be Named

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    Last week, Aurora stepped out of town for some knitting-related tomfoolery, so I decided to invite my degenerate novelist friends over for some stuffed pork loin.  These are the freaks that I met at Push to Publish about this time last year, and we’ve gotten together a few times since and been generally supportive of one…

  • Floppy hats

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    Good morning, theater-lovers! As you know, I’ve been beaucoup busy with the new site, Martinis with Nick.  The second episode went live yesterday, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, you definitely should.  Stage manager Margie Price talks about some questionable theater-related wagers. But I’ve been busy doing other things, of course.  On Saturday, I…

  • Christmas Shenanigans

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    Last weekend saw our intrepid hero (i.e., me) drinking with perfectly responsible, reckful abandon.  Saturday night, I was invited to a Christmas party at my new friend George’s apartment (Thanks again, George!).  I’d met George and the other curious creatures in the photo at the Push to Publish conference last October; all of us are…

  • Playlist of the Damned

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    My fiction-writing friend, Maureen Kilkeary, asked a deep, life-affecting question on her FaceBook page last week, involving the use of music while writing.  The question, basically, was: “Do you or don’t you, and if you do, what kind?”  While I tend to shy away from topics about the process of writing, I feel this question…

  • Race Street Antics

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    As all playwrights in this city know, there are a handful of bars where we tend to hang out.  I don’t know if there is a similar territorial compact with authors (I’m still learning all the rules), but when I decided to meet up with my new friends from the Push to Publish Conference last…

  • Push to Publish 2014, Part 2

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    In my last post, I started talking about the Push to Publish conference, and focused on my “speed-date,” during which, I pitched my novel to an agent (or didn’t pitch it, depending upon how you look at it…see the post for details).  Today, I’m talking about the sessions and some of the people I met.…

  • Push to Publish 2014, Part 1

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    The Push to Publish conference graced the campus of Rosemont College on Saturday, and I had a blast…so much so, that I won’t even try to cram it all into a single post.  So, let me give you some highlights today, and I promise, I’ll get to the rest later in the week. The conference…

  • Half-price registrations for Push to Publish

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    As I’ve mentioned more than once, I’m attending the Push to Publish Conference at Rosemont College tomorrow.  As I’ve also mentioned more than once, if you’re a writer in the Philadelphia area who’s interested in being published, you could really learn a lot by going at the low low low registration cost of $95. Well,…