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By Guest Contributor Anonymous Hi. I’m writing this blog post at work. A few months ago, I revised the final draft of my first novel right here at my desk, and since then, I’ve been writing short stories, drafting novel…
By Guest Contributor Virginia Pye We all know writers with unpublished manuscripts hidden in desk drawers. Successful authors often admit to a half dozen failed, boxed-away books. Emily Dickinson bundled her poems with string and placed them under her bed….
By Guest Contributor Melanie DeCarolis There are a lot of supposed rules about first novels that Martin Seay breaks with his debut, The Mirror Thief. It’s a publisher-unfriendly 592 pages. It’s a mashup of three ambitious yet interconnected time-hopping storylines:…
By Guest Contributor Sharon Bially Writers in the trenches of drafting and revising often look ahead with nothing but pure jubilation to the day when they’ll be offered a publishing deal. That’s the day all the hard work, the restructuring,…
By Guest Contributor Camille DeAngelis. This post first appeared on www.macmillanlibrary.com and is reposted with the author’s permission. Calm down, friends—it’s not the end of libraries! BONES & ALL author Camille DeAngelis wrote the following piece about the future of libraries after being inspired by…
By Guest Contributor Stephanie Austin Edwards New York Times bestselling author Pat Conroy has said to me personally, as well as on the stage at many writers’ conferences, that he doesn’t understand why anyone would want to participate in a…