Writing marginalized content in a mainstream world is balls. Aside from the extra pitfalls we as such authors have to look out for, aside from the extra attention and reflection and detail such writing demands, we also hit a nerve-wracking…
Somehow, I managed to miss the most important best of/year-end list of 2015. The top sellers? The best of whatevers? Who cares?! It’s the best cuties in publishing! At left: “Bela Lugosi, who belongs to Ben Samuel and probably helps at the National Book…
The blogosphere has been abuzz over a six-figure deal for the rights to a year-old self-published debut novel, The Cruelty, by Scott Bergstrom. The firestorm began with a November 24th article in Publisher’s Weekly, “YA Debut Gets Six Figure Deal,…