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As a member of the Author’s Guild, I receive informative posts from them. Used here by permission, is their new insightful message about the current 2012 state of the publishing ecosystem. Read it on the Author’s Guild site. Before you read this, or after you read this, you might want to have some other input [...]
The Arkansas Society of Children’s BookWriters and Illustrators conference (see the national SCBWI site here) was this weekend in North Little Rock, AR, my home town! It was a small, cozy conference; but look out, because Arkansas writers have big dreams. Kudos to the AR-Regional Advisor, Phyllis Heman, for planning a great conference. The speakers, [...]
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Guest post from Dori Butler What advice would you give to your younger self? I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Always. But wanting to be a writer is probably a lot like wanting to be a baseball player. Or a movie star. A lot of people want it, but most will settle for something [...]
Have Your Pity Party: But Then Get to Work When you get the letter from an editor about a revision, what do you do? Frankly, I get mad. How dare that misguided editor
John Green is discussing which is better: a big or little advance? These contract issues are vitally important. Which would you prefer?
Children’s Books Beating the Recession? What’s the state of children’s publishing? Harold Underdown, The Purple Crayon website, has reported on the economic turmoil in publishing of late 2008 and into early 2009. Publishing, especially books for kids, is on the upswing? So say a couple of postings: JIll Cocoran, Literary Agent at the Herman Agency [...]
What is the Best Length for Novel Chapters? How long are your chapters? How long is long enough or too long? In his book, , action/adventure author, David Morrell (creator of the Rambo character, among others), says he tries to write short chapters, so that a reader can complete one chapter (or structural unit) at [...]
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