One Week Until National Novel Writing Month
Tuesday October 25, 2005
National Novel Writing Month(NaNoWriMo) kicks off on next Tuesday, November 1. The month of concerted writing, begun in 1999 in Oakland, CA, encourages writers to throw caution to the wind ... Read More
Donate Books to Restock Gulf Libraries
Monday October 24, 2005
Alibris, the online used book dealer, will match any book you donate from the Gulf Coast Wishlist to help restock libraries in Louisiana and Mississippi. Books may be purchased online; ... Read More
New Latino Fiction Line from Warner Books
Monday October 17, 2005
Warner Books has just started a Latino-oriented fiction line, which will include six trade paperbacks a year, starting in early 2007, under the direction of associate editor Adrienne Avila. ... Read More
Get Ready for 2005 Texas Book Festival
Monday October 17, 2005
The Austin area will be receiving some especially literary treats this Halloween weekend with the Texas Book Festival October 28-30, 2005. The annual festival raises money for Texas libraries, who ... Read More
Writers' Rooms Cropping Up
Friday October 14, 2005
An article in last week's Sunday New York Times spurred me to look into writers' rooms throughout the country. Though the majority of these spaces, which provide desk space, internet ... Read More
Novello Festival of Reading
Friday October 14, 2005
The Novello Festival of Reading in Charlotte, NC, kicks off this Monday and runs through October 29, 2005. This year's writers include novelists Elizabeth Berg and Chris Bohjalian and award-winning ... Read More
Mid-October 2005 Deadlines Coming Up
Tuesday October 11, 2005
Check out fiction contests from Dogwood (October 15), Missouri Review (October 15), and Indiana Review (October 17). Fall's a great time to send your work out, if you've ever been ... Read More
Interview with Kris Saknussemm, Author of Zanesville
Tuesday October 4, 2005
Last month author Kris Saknussemm contributed an essay, "Five Tips to Avoiding Total Disaster as a Novelist from a Poor, Wretched Fool Who Had to Learn the Hard Way." I ... Read More
Publishers Roundtable
Monday October 3, 2005
For writers in the New York City area, there is a professional publishers round table this Thursday at the Cervantes Institute featuring "reflections and comments by publishers who -- despite ... Read More
An Ancient Art Reveals New Story Ideas
Monday October 3, 2005
Bibliomancy is the art of telling the future by choosing words at random from a book. In this exercise, we use the practice of bibliomancy to divine a future story. ... Read More
When You Don't Have Room to Write
Saturday October 1, 2005
What do you do when you don't have space to write? Ideally we'd all have that room of our own, but sometimes that's just not an option. But space should ... Read More