The Great American Novel Dream
Go Figure: Musings from the Mind of Rob Wilstein September 1, 2013 Anya Slushpile Redem, Phazst and Sellum Literary Agents, Inc. 999 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10001 Dear Ms. Slushpile,
Category: Publishing
Us and Them
Welcome to the first installment of Dead Darlings’ mishmash of the web, a series that will appear or not appear randomly whenever we feel like it. Over the past few of weeks, Mom and Dad have been fighting in literary…
Novel Inc, News from the Novel Incubator: Grubbing For Sex
Sex, lurid or otherwise, wasn’t covered in Grub Street’s Incubator 2011- 12, the first year-long workshop. Or maybe it was, and I repressed it, or perhaps felt I didn’t need to pay attention since my novel followed an Amish family…
To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish?
That is the question for more and more writers. On October 29, 2012, two of the big six publishing houses, Random House and Penguin, announced that they would merge. The merger would create the largest book publisher in the world…
A-Date: The Agonizing Search for an Agent’s Love
Finding that perfect romantic match is not an activity for the faint of heart, especially for those in their middle years. And neither is finding that perfect agent. It’s a brutal world out there.
No Cred
Here’s my book jacket bio: Susan Donovan Bernhard does not have an MFA. In the 1900s, she had two articles in Southern Bride—one on picking jewelry to match a white dress and another on theme weddings. She has had two…