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Freelance writing can be hectic and stressful. You spend a lot of time pitching topics or writing manuscripts that may not even get published, deal with rejection, work under tight deadlines, and collaborate with editors on revision. If you have a day...
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If you’re (like me) a fan of William Zinsser’s wonderful books about writing, most notably the classic On Writing Well , you might want to check out his blog for The American Scholar. The magazine describes “Zinsser on Friday”...
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A. Manette Ansay is in town (Milwaukee) tonight, appearing at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music to talk about her latest novel, Good Things I Wish for You , which explores the relationship between Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. I went to Ansay’s...
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I spent last week in New York to attend BookExpo America , the giant publishing conference at the Jacob K. Javits Center for booksellers, agents, authors and book publishers. I shared a booth at the show with Andre Becker (left, in photo) of Gotham Writers’...
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Today’s Wall Street Journal features a great overview piece by Geoffrey A. Fowler and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg on digital self-publishing, and how it threatens traditional publishing. A few highlights: “ ‘[Digital self-publishing is]...
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We often point out in The Writer that writing is a lifetime endeavor. A good example of this was the great novelist Henry Roth. According to a New York Times article, “Breathing Life Into Henry Roth” by Charles McGrath, Roth was a fascinating...
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As most mystery fans know, we first met Rusty Sabich 23 years ago in Scott Turow’s novel Presumed Innocent , now something of a genre classic. Rusty, then a deputy prosecutor in a thinly disguised Chicago, got himself in a big heap of trouble when...
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I’m trying to decide if I’ll be able to finish reading Justin Cronin’s new book The Passage , a story about a little girl who is destined to save the world from a military experiment gone wrong—a virus that wipes out most of humanity...
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With the publishing business changing daily, making it ever more difficult to get published, two recent New York Times stories were heartening. They highlight the importance of independent-minded editors and small presses now and in the past. In his review...
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When I was interviewing Daniyal Mueenuddin for the June issue of The Writer , the conversation veered away from his writing in particular into the territory of the ethics of using real people in your writing, whether in fiction or memoir. (When interviews...
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Oops. Forgot an author for my colleague Sarah Lange’s May 28 th blog on great beach reading. That would be Daniel Silva. Any of his espionage-thrillers will do; they’re unusually well-crafted, and absorbing enough to get you sun-burned. The...
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