For Readers
If you’re sick of hearing about Lionel Shriver’s diversity comments, you may want to hit the back button on your browser. If you’re not — the latest salvo, in case you missed it, comes from another author who praised the same...
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker’s publishing imprint officially released its first novel last week. SJP for Hogarth’s launch of A Place for Us comes well on the heels of other celebrities like Lena Dunham, Derek Jeter, and Anthony Bourdain r...
Sure, yesterday was Father's Day, but we can keep celebrating dads, right? Literary Hub collected photos of thirteen famous authors at varying ages and their fathers. Below is novelist Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale ... as if we had to...
Romance isn’t the only genre with diversity issues — detective fiction tends to be overwhelmingly white, male, and heterosexual. The Guardian’s David Barnett recently interviewed several authors — including AA Dhand, Step...
For Authors
The business side of writing can be just as hard, if not harder, than the craft itself. After all, as Jeff Somers points out in a Writer’s Digest article, it’s harder to sum up a financial strategy in a catchy phrase like “show, don...
Best-selling author Hugh Howey is known not just for his literary works like the Wool and Silo series, but also for his advocacy for self-published authors. (Oh, and he also starred in another sci-fi writer’s novel, Hugh Howey Lives — che...
When Fussy is hungry, we don’t care what you call the meal as long as food happens. But one follower of Grammar Girl wrote in to pose the question: Dinner or supper? Jake from Kentucky said that when he moved to Virginia, he was labeled a hillb...
Sometimes it’s not what to say, but rather what not to say. In the case of a pitch situation, author and publishing guru Jane Friedman says, less can most definitely be more. You’re better served by paying attention to the other person an...
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