A Different Kind of Happily Ever After
One of the things I struggled with when I worked in editorial at a traditional publisher was the fact that I couldn’t always help the… Read More »A Different Kind of Happily Ever After
One of the things I struggled with when I worked in editorial at a traditional publisher was the fact that I couldn’t always help the… Read More »A Different Kind of Happily Ever After
What does it mean to be a writer? What does it take? Putting your ass in the chair, that’s what. I don’t often feel like… Read More »Guest Blogger, LG: Put Your Ass in the Chair
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 […]
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. […]
I was standing at the ticket counter for United Airlines last April, getting ready to attend my first ROMANTIC TIMES conference, when the airline rep asked me where I was headed. I remember giving her this sort of self-deprecating smile and telling her that I’d written a book, and was going […]
This week, the Recalcitrant Scrivener blogged about editing and revising a manuscript from both an editor’s and an author’s point of view: Editing is a sensitive issue—for… Read More »The Sensitivity of Literary Editing