For Readers
Apparently, seeing Shakespeare on a stage is so passé. Electric Literature compiled the ten most unusual locations where the Bard’s plays have been performed — and most aren’t one-off occurrences, either. Head here to find ou...
Linda Kay Klein long ago left the evangelical church that prized sexual purity and placed the burden of that requirement on women and girls. But when she left, she didn't just walk away from the shame it had instilled in her. Breaking free o...
We all know we have space exploration to thank for Tang, but you may not realize just how much astrophysics owes, in turn, to the military. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is here to fill in many of those blanks, with his new book, Accessory To War: The Unspoken...
Iceland is beloved among readers for its Christmas Eve tradition of giving books as gifts. And there’s more reason for us bookworms to put the island on a pedestal: More books are published there, per capita, than anywhere else in the world. No...
For Authors
In keeping with this morning’s theme of literature and travel, we share Joanna Penn’s interview with travel writer Tim Leffel. A long series of fortuitous events resulted in Leffel becoming a full-time travel writer over a decade ago &mda...
Kristine Kathryn Rusch has more advice for authors on how to negotiate, but frankly, we think her exhortation to be a hardass is valid for the rest of us as well. Rusch shares a few of her writing-negotiation experiences from the era before she...
Joanna Penn went on The Secret Library Podcast recently to discuss nonfiction writing from the heart. In addition to talking about finding inspiration and exploring your own creativity, she and host Caroline Donohue go over the nuts and bolts of it &...
Super-fans, in addition to boosting your self-confidence, are obviously huge assets to your business. So how does one find these fans? Judith Briles, an author and writing/publishing coach, has some thoughts on how to build that “personal team...
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