Lessons From My First BEA
…writers and what’s next. But, as I said before, when you’re on the floor itself, and there are hundreds of people all rushing past, swarming tables, exchanging business cards, and…
…writers and what’s next. But, as I said before, when you’re on the floor itself, and there are hundreds of people all rushing past, swarming tables, exchanging business cards, and…
Of all the seasons, summer is the most conducive to reading. Longer days, beachside lounging, and the greater availability of iced beverages are perfect companions for paperbacks in your sandy…
…big skull lately that leaders are just ordinary people with a little bit of influence. If you write, and anybody—I mean, anybody, even if it’s just your mother—reads your writing,…
…recently purged from the Oxford Junior Dictionary (like the OED with training wheels). All of these words name life in the natural world, among them wren, bramble, kingfisher, otter, acorn….
…modern writers, Cormac McCarthy, drew his inspiration for his novel The Road from conversations with other people. The Wall Street Journal article states that the author, although not very outgoing,…
…she’s an award-winning sci-fi and fantasy author of the Chronicles of the Third Realm War novels, starting with Mud. She believes in complicated characters, terrifying monsters, and purple hair dye….
When you submit your essay, poetry, or short story to a magazine or journal, your cover letter is usually the first thing an editor sees. While it is important, it…
…Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed (2005). Her work has also appeared in The Hopkins Review, Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music, Notes, The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (2005), and…
…As you experiment, grow, and find what works for you, you’ll gain connections, build a following, and with time, expand into additional channels. By day, Emily Wenstrom, is the editor…
…or break a story’s success. This is your chance to grab readers, editors, and publishers, so don’t waste time with paragraphs that take away from the voice, events, characters, problem,…