Publishing

Guest Blogger, Paul La Rosa: On Writing a Memoir

I consider myself an experienced writer. After all, I’ve been a newspaper reporter, a producer for CBS News, and the author of four true crime books. But I had never written a memoir until I began trying two years ago. Writing a memoir is different. My first […]

Guest Blogger, RossH: An Intro to Webcomics

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I was talking to Danielle a few weeks and sharing some ideas I’d had about Christmas gifts, I sent her a link to a shirt on TopatoCo, which she later posted here, along with some other choice materials from the site. After sharing our favorites of the various witty t-shirts, […]

Out in the Open with Suzanne Brockmann

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We’ve received a surprising number of e-mails over the past several months about categorizing LGBTQ genre fiction on the Genre Map. The questions came at us from all angles: “Where do I put my male-male Romantic SF [or insert genre here]?” “Where […]

The Author-Editor Relationship: Jane-Austen-style

I came into the office this morning to a find hilarious–and thoughtful–article sent to me from one of my awesome authors. The article, written surprisingly by Jill Lawless of the Associated Press, focuses on how even the most renowned authors need a helping editorial hand to polish a manuscript. […]