J. Ryan Stradal is the fiction editor of the online magazine The Nervous Breakdown and the acquisitions editor at Unnamed Press in Los Angeles. His debut novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, is the story of a young woman with…
Hoo-boy. After sitting alone for hours working on their opuses, writers must then come out of their dark caves and release their work into the wild, strategize about marketing and self promotion, become a brand, read widely to be a…
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Figures from online retailer…
Congratulations to those hard-working authors who will see their novels on bookstore shelves — physical, digital, or both — in the near or distant future. Whether your book has already launched, will launch within the next year, or you’re still…
For Valentine’s Day in 2009 my husband and I got tickets to a New Yorker event called “Love Is Strange” where Jeffrey Eugenides was going to speak about love and literature. That February, I was finishing my dissertation that included…
‘Masshole’ is now officially a word, not just the word I yell at the drivers who nearly run me over in the crosswalk. Much like being a pedestrian in Boston, the publishing path is full of hazards, even when you…