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About 11 years ago, when I found Betsy Lerner ’s The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers on the shelf of a local bookstore, I snatched it up and took it home. After reading it, I just knew I had to work in publishing. I initially...
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Long before I was an editor, I worked in bookstores—first for many years at Webster’s Books, an independent on Milwaukee’s East Side, and then, years later, for a short run at Europa Books, also in Milwaukee. I grew up in a book-loving...
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Let’s say you’ve finished your novel and submitted a query letter to Marla Miller for our latest online column, Critique My Query . You’ve addressed her comments and polished your letter. You’ve done your research, so you know...
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Earlier this week, I read White Oleander author Janet Fitch ’s “ 10 rules for writers ” on Jacket Copy, the Los Angeles Times blog about “all things bookish.” I especially liked her advice for scenes. “A scene starts...
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Many of us, I'm sure, have been following the Macmillan/Amazon struggle for control over pricing digital books. Now imagine that a Macmillan imprint released your first book a week before the standoff that led Amazon to remove all Macmillan titles...
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A couple of weeks ago on this blog, I lamented the demise of my library's old due-date slips with the stamps as my connection to the readers who borrowed the book before me. As I mentioned, I liked to imagine who the book's previous readers were...
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