Starting Anew
As I’ve been in the throes of revising my novel (again) and will soon be querying agents (again), hoping to launch my first book out into the world, visions of my next novel have been creeping into my consciousness. So,…
Friday Feast: Just Say No, On Poverty in Literature, the Writing Lessons of Hamilton, Risky Writing, and Why We Don’t Italicize Spanish
This week, we learn why creatives who say no are the most productive. (So hard to do in reality.) We also dig in to the representations of poverty in literature, the writing lessons of Hamilton, and one author’s perspective on…
Crushed by the Crucible
So I did that thing, the very depressing one, where I pulled an old manuscript out of the files with the intention of fixing it. I was confident I knew the problem: it had to be the stakes. The reader…
YA Wednesday: What Teens Really Think, Feel, and Want You to Know
As someone whose teen years are miles away in the rear view mirror, I often find myself using that trite expression, “Back when I was a kid,” with my teenage children. Cue the eye rolling. No wonder. The time before…
Patron Saints for Writers
In case you missed it—and I did—January 24th was the feast day for Saint Francis de Sales, patron saint of writers and journalists. Our guy trudged around the snowy Swiss landscape trying to win back Catholics lost to Calvinism. He…
Friday Feast: Book Publicist’s Advice for Debut Novelists, An Interview with A. Ironi Barrett, Quitting Your Day Job, A Heated Auction for a YA Novel, and Twitter Tips from a Literary Agent
It’s time for the Friday Feast! This week, we have an assorted menu of literary links, from publicity and Twitter advice, to publishing news and an interview with an author whose young Nigerian protagonist awakes the morning before a job…