Met my agent today at Book Expo America. He let me use his assistant’s badge to get in, and we walked around so he could introduce me to people and score me some freebies. It was a Sunday, so the best freebies were long gone, and a lot of the top editors were nowhere to [...]

My rationale has always been that since my name is “Peter”, “Pete” is just a nickname, regardless of how it is spelled, and so I am justified in spelling it any way I want.
When I was 13 or so, I wanted to encourage people to call me “Pete” instead of “Peter”. I also wanted a [...]