Getting An Agent Won’t Change Your Life
“I love these pages. This is exactly the type of novel I represent. Send it to me!” The agent was saying all the things you dream an agent will say when you sign up for a Manuscript Mart appointment at…
“I love these pages. This is exactly the type of novel I represent. Send it to me!” The agent was saying all the things you dream an agent will say when you sign up for a Manuscript Mart appointment at…
Author and writing instructor Matt Bell recently spoke at Porter Square Books at Grub Street’s beautiful, new narrative arts center in Boston—in person no less! In introducing his new craft book, Refuse to Be Done (Soho Press, 2022), Bell promised…
Ted Flanagan’s dark debut thriller, Every Hidden Thing, brings together an EMS worker whose son has a life-threatening illness, a corrupt politician, a dirty cop, a disillusioned reporter, and a deranged domestic terrorist in a twisty tale that grabs you…
I sometimes wonder whether, growing up, anyone ever uncovered my “dirty little secret.” I was not always good at hiding it: I misread social cues. I struggled to focus on conversations. I made few friends. I mimicked behavior I saw…
Several months ago, one of my mother’s childhood friends died. Margie was a librarian, teacher, writer, activist. Although we hadn’t connected in many years, she remained a vivid part of my memory of childhood, very much the color Red. At…
Mary-Kim Arnold and Matthew Derby are married writers who live in Pawtucket, RI. Mary-Kim is the author of The Fish & The Dove, a poetry collection, and Litany for the Long Moment, a book-length experimental memoir about the failed search…