Cooks For Books
Jim Hayman: I don’t know whether it’s something in the air or in the water or whether, as is more likely, it grows out of the general culture of the place. But, for a state with just over a million...
View ArticleRejection—Part Two by Barbara Ross
I wrote earlier this week about how I’ve experienced the act of rejecting as an editor. Today I want to talk about how I’ve come to think about rejection from the other side, as a writer. Honestly,...
View ArticleBeen there. Done that. Bought the t-shirt.
One of the signs of fall around our house is a change in what I wear when I’m writing. As the weather gets colder, I go from shorts and t-shirts to sweats. I have a lot of t-shirts. When I go to a...
View ArticleKaitlyn vs. the Robots
Kaitlyn Dunnett here, just back from the Novelists Inc. conference, a gathering of multi-published writers of genre fiction. Like most who attended, I took copious notes because things like...
View ArticleWill Novels Survive?
Hi Barb here. I’m in Key West where the temperature is hovering at 66 degrees and everyone is complaining about the cold. (Don’t hate me.) From my tongue-in-cheek publicity campaign “Cute Babies Read...
View ArticleCan a Writer Retire?
Philip Roth, long one of my favorite writers, recently announced his retirement. In his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side there’s reportedly a post-it note stuck on his computer screen that...
View ArticleTwelve Social Media Tips to Boost your Book Sales this Holiday Season
A particular joy of crime writing conferences is the chance to meet new people, writers and non-writers alike. At Murder By The Book, a two-day event at the fabulous Jesup Library in Bar Harbor this...
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