This week! We’re getting into the summer publishing doldrums so not a huge amount of news, but I have some links to send your way. I will be taking a hiatus next week but will return later in August. First up, I was negligent last week when I forgot to link to the really upsetting […]
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in the discussion forums: Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this area! I’ll post the pages and queries a few days before a critique so you can see how your […]
Whenever I’m writing, and especially when I’m editing, if I ever slow down and really think about what it is that I’m doing with my time, it’s pretty easy to go down a slippery philosophical rabbit hole and end up madder than a hatter. What are stories in the first place? Why do we read […]This week! Books! Yesterday I took the Surfliner down to Comic-Con in San Diego to moderate an excellent panel with film literary mangers and book literary agents on the state of publishing and book to film. The vibes were noticeably grim. Hollywood is mired in strikes (which everyone supports) and book literary agents, already contending […]
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in our discussion forums: Also: I’M LOW ON QUERIES TO EDIT. If you post your query in the query critique forum, there’s a good chance I’ll edit it in the coming weeks. If you’d like to test your […]