Alright, men and women. Day Two of Boot Camp! You have your novel idea. Now it’s time to fill it page in and page out with various events that keep the reader’s interest. How exactly do you do that? Novels don’t just spill themselves onto the page (or at least they shouldn’t!). It’s best to […]
Jonathan Franzen
Back!
Whew! Back in the office, where I returned to the sound of 421 queries simultaneously shouting “Hi! Hi! Where have you been?!” from my Inbox. Needless to say, query response time is going to be delayed for a while. Not least of which due to the monumental jet lag that led me to arrive at […]
This Week in Publishing 10/8/10
Tento týden v publikování… First off, thank you so much to everyone who entered the Guest Blog Contest Festival Event! There were actually so many spectacular entries that I decided to expand the number of contest winning slots. That’s right folks, this blog is going seven days a week. Well. At least until I get […]
Franzen, FREEDOM and the Era of the Blockbuster
You may have heard from, oh, I don’t know, the Time Magazine cover or the Vogue profile or the rave reviews or the Picoult/Weiner spat or the author video where Franzen says he doesn’t like author videos or the fact that the President of the United States was spotted with it….. anyway, you might have […]
This Week in Publishing 8/20/10
Lots of links! Let’s get to them. There were a few controversies this week in publishing. Firstly, if you have ever attended a conference with the fabulous YA Author Ellen Hopkins, you know that in addition to being a brilliant writer and storyteller she’s also a terrific, honest, and inspiring speaker and devotes a huge […]
This Week in Publishing 8/13/10
In!!!!!!!!!! PublishingThisWeek First up, if you are in the San Francisco vicinity I will be on a panel hosted by the good people at GigaOM regarding Disintermediation in Publishing the morning of August 25th. It’s free, the panel I’m on is with the CEO of Smashwords, author Simon Wood, and the Director of Marketing at […]