This week's featured press is Pleasure Boat Studio, an independent press that publishes small quantities of high quality literature, founded in 1996. According to publisher Jack Estes, they offer a ... Read More

The biggest holiday shopping weekend is upon us already, but don't worry. There are tons of great gifts out there for the writers in your life. I've compiled a shopping ... Read More

The December calendar for contest and awards deadlines is now up. Watch out for December 1 deadlines for opportunities such as the Bennett Fellowship, the Fine Arts Work Center, and ... Read More

Brenda Mills, Managing Editor of Fiction Collective Two (FC2), recently completed a profile of their author-run, not-for-profit publishing house. If you're sitting on an artistically adventurous or nontraditional novel, you ... Read More

Do your short stories tend to get bogged down in backstory? Do certain scenes seem to drag, even to you? As Alicia Erian pointed out in an interview for this ... Read More

This week's profile is of Marion Boyars Publishers, an independent literary UK publishing house founded in 1975, with a reputation for taking risks in publishing innovative literature. These risks have ... Read More

Ever get the feeling you're in a rut, using the same point of view over and over again? It's important as a writer to be able to determine which point ... Read More

Independent presses are well known for providing authors with more attention than mainstream presses, offering the necessary editorial advice to improve a book, as well as the marketing and publicity ... Read More

I was very lucky to get some time with Alicia Erian, the author of the novel, Towelhead, at the Texas Book Festival last week. Erian, who teaches writing at Wellesley ... Read More

Attention Readers: Whatever you do, don't read the latest interview. It's really just a series of unfortunate questions and answers, a wretched exchange with Dan Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, which ... Read More

Bigger is always better in the great state of Texas, and the Texas Book Festival, drawing close to 200 writers to the state capital for two full days of panels, ... Read More

I was lucky enough to get some time with Lemony Snicket and Alicia Erian, author of Towelhead (the Erian interview will be posted shortly). Lemony Snicket, who writes for adults ... Read More