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LATEST ARTICLES ( 119 )

• Attorney Helen Sedwick on Legal Issues for Book Authors

  

  Today we are going to interview Helen Sedwick, business attorney and author of Self-Publisher's Legal Handbook: The Step-by-Step Guide to the Legal Issues of... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Grateful Dead: A Cultural History

  

  Today we're interviewing Peter Richardson, whose new book, No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead, was released in January by St. Martin's... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Questions About Literary Agents Asked and Answered

  I attend lots of writers conferences all over the United States. Almost all of them have "agent panels" where participants ask agents to address their questions... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How Not to Flog Your Product on Facebook

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  Posted on 05 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bad Pitches

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  Posted on 09 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tawni Waters on Beauty of the Broken

  

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  Posted on 01 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Best Query Letter Ever Written

  

  Recently I attended the Taos Summer Writers Conference. It was fabulous and I urge everyone to check it out. I taught a class in which the participants... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Laura Fraser Talks About Shebooks

  

  Today we are going to interview Laura Fraser, co-founder and editorial director of Shebooks, a new publishing company devoted to promoting works by women author... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Amazon – Hachette Dispute: What’s at Stake for Authors?

  

  The book industry has been abuzz with the latest news of Amazon bullying book publishers. According to an article in The New York Times on May 8, Amazon has bee... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Interview With Authors Guild General Counsel, Jan Constantine

  

  Today we are going to speak to Jan Constantine, general counsel for The Authors Guild.The Authors Guild is the largest and oldest organization representing... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Mary Mackey Interviews a Celebrity Agent (That Would Be Me)

  

  Today I am reprinting an interview by myself and Mary Mackey originally published in her fabulous writer’s blog: “The Writer’s Journey. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Business Plans for Writers

  

  Today we’re going to interview Nina Amir about how authors can and should write a business plan for their book. Nina is the author of How to Blog a Book and... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Life of a Paparazzi. An Interview With Jennifer Buhl

  

  C’mon. Admit it. Every time you’re in the line at Safeway, you can’t help taking a discrete peek at the tabloids. Gotta get your fix on celebrity... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson On What Animals Teach Us About Human Evil

  

  Today Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson will be talking to us about his new book, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Human Evil, released this... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How Not to Freak Out and Get Humiliated When Pitching to Agents

  

  San Miguel de AllendeI just got back from the writers conference at San Miguel de Allende. The city was voted the number one travel destination in the world by... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On the 25th Anniversary of the Rushdie Affair

  

  February 1 is the 25th anniversary of the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in the United States. Two weeks after publication, Ayatollah... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Do Editors [and Agents] Edit

  

  When I first decided to become an agent, I had an image of my job as being something between  a  real estate broker and a judge on American Idol.  It hasn’t... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bill Petrocelli -Bookseller and Novelist

  

  Today we are going to interview Bill Petrocelli, co-owner of the legendary Book Passage in Marin County. Bill has recently written a novel, The Circle of... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Michele Anna Jordan on Food and Food Writing

  

  Today we are going to talk to Michele Anna Jordan about food writing. Michele is a James Beard Award winning author and food and wine writer. She is the author... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth Kephart on Writing Memoir

  

  Today we are going to talk with Beth Kephart about writing memoir. Beth is the author of Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir published this year by... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE