If you write with the intention of publishing, and if you’re online much at all, you’ve probably come across Publetariat, a popular online community serving authors and publishers. Today the editor posted a public request for donations to keep the site afloat as she struggles with private medical and financial issues. She writes: “This morning [...]
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Amazon and Penguin announce fourth annual novel writing competition
I hesitate to post this now that NaNoWriMo has just wrapped up, but fortunately the submission period doesn’t begin until the end of January, so you’ve got a couple of months to cool down and start rewrites. Anyway: Penguin and Amazon are holding the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest for fiction and young adult [...]
The Paris Review posts over 300 author interviews online
If you enjoy learning how your favorite authors think, write, and argue, then you’ll love this amazing new resource now available for free online. The Paris Review has been interviewing the world’s most famous authors for over five decades, and last week its new editor posted all of them on its website. With over 300 [...]
Notes from yesterday's Google Book Search settlement workshop
Here were the main themes discussed at yesterday’s Google Book Search settlement workshop hosted by the National Writers Union (NWU).
Five editors and authors discuss the role of the editor
Here are the three key points made in a recent BBC Open Book program about the role of the editor in pubilshing.
Screens: Jane Austen
Thomas K. wrote, “Is there any chance you just might find a picture good enough for our kindle of Jane Austen?”
Screen: Edgar Allen Poe #2
Here’s a larger version of Poe, looking sufficiently melancholy. Probably thinking of what rhymes with sepulchre or something like that. Update:This image and others are now collected on the Free Screens page of the site.
Screen: Edgar Allen Poe #1
A reader asked me about a Poe screensaver, so I decided to make one. My god, he looks gloomy. That’s Poe for ya. Update:This image and others are now collected on the Free Screens page of the site.