Anyone interested in understanding publishing can learn a lot, for free, by subscribing to the daily e-mail Publishers Lunch. And if you’re at all interested in being published, you should be interested in understanding publishing, according to Marcela Landres, a former editor at Simon & Schuster who now coaches writers through her website, workshops and [...]
I first saw this tongue-in-cheek explanation of the publishing process, produced by the digital marketing group at Macmillan, on a fabulous writing blog I just discovered, Ghost Word by Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California (St. Martin’s Press, 2008).
Dinkelspiel is a journalist with publishing credentials [...]
Free is good, especially in the financially precarious field of writing. So I thought I’d point out a few freebies for writers, starting with The Writer’s Almanac. Every morning, The Writer’s Almanac arrives in my e-mail inbox, and it’s a great way to get inspired for the day. It includes a poem, literary birthdays and [...]