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Summary: We?ve been talking in recent months about which publishing routes work best for writers (the as-yet unpublished and established authors as well), especially in light of the mergers and shakeups inside the large houses, and the general "nervous state" of e Read more.
Summary: Last time we talked about sending a reader to an island, an undiscovered country, using point of view to give him new eyes to see with and a new place from which to look. Read more.
Summary: Writers often assume that once they?re published, all the trials and tribulations of learning the craft and the business and selling their books is then thank-God-and-greyhound over. The idea of quitting the day job is so universal that its corollary has Read more.
Summary: Since the dawn of the great techno-revolution that is the past 125 years, inventions that challenge the way we receive information and ideas have been greeted with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Read more.
Summary: So this friends says to me, he says, "You know what you need? I'll tell you exactly what you need. You need to write a science fiction novel more popular than Star Trek or Star Wars." Read more.
Summary: Picture yourself standing at the open door of your garage. Spread out in front of you are the thousands of parts of an eight cylinder engine. You have to put it together. Read more.
Summary: Publishing is in flux?an understatement if ever one existed. This industry is in the midst of some of the greatest changes since Gutenberg sent us into the modern era. And the majority of these changes revolve around whether or not publishing will even ex Read more.
Summary: We?ve been discussing in recent columns the ways to find an agent, break into publishing, when to take criticism (or not), and issues concerning publishing in general, as these are the most frequently asked questions of me. Underlying them all, Read more.
Summary: Probably the most frequent question I get (along with most agents and editors), is "How do I find the right agent?" This question gets discussed so often, that most industry folks groan at the mention. But let?s just look at it from all angles.
Summary: Writers are bombarded these days with a plethora of ways in which to improve their craft, and often deciding which method is best, right for the individual, or most productive is difficult if not downright lunacy. I have folks write me saying theyre atten Read more.
Summary: The business of publishing has grown so autonomous, that writers often feel completely lost in the dark sea of the submissions process. You query and query and do everything right, only to get enough rejection slips to wallpaper the guest bedroom, Read more.
Summary: On the Web, everybody is a publisher. So it behooves everyone to try to work together for a fair solution to this "Who owns information?" problem. After all, fair IS fair. Read more.
