This week! Books! Now that Workman has been acquired by Hachette and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has been acquired by HarperCollins, where have all the midsized book publishers gone? Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly surveys this dying breed and cites the difficulty of building a backlist, the capital needed to grow into midsized publisher, and ongoing […]
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Choose your mysteries carefully (page critique)
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in our discussion forums: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this area! […]
What I learned about writing from being an editor
Hi writerly people! Well, I have some exciting news to share in my third guest post: I just published a novel! We Are Not Like Them came out on October 5th and it’s been a wild ride, including a thrilling (and nerve wracking!) appearance on national television as the Good Morning America book club pick! […]
How to make your novel un-put-down-able
Answer: Lots of glue! But seriously, there are some books that adhere to our hands and we lose sleep and abandon personal hygiene in order to finish. Why is that? How are some books able to grip us and not let us go while others are a slog? The reason varies from book to book […]
The week everyone was talking about a kidney (This week in books)
This week! Books! Everyone in publishing this week was talking about a kidney. Here’s why. I personally couldn’t get through it, but consider yourself alerted that this story managed to overshadow all other publishing news this week. And it was a week where National Book Awards finalists and the Nobel Prize for Literature were announced! […]
Raise the stakes at the end of your plot description (query critique)
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in the discussion forums: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this […]
