The business of writing

Your Bookstore: Watchung Booksellers

Don’t let the giant corporations win. Use your power as a consumer to support your local bookstore. It is a community hub, a reading spa, a place to express your beliefs and have your voice heard. Here is the profile of Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, New Jersey.

"Read" not "bought"

I don’t want to depend on the smartypants way; I’d rather build my audience one by one.

Write Your Story: Begin with Humility

When you put your adventures out there, other people will learn about them and tell you about their own; then you’ll wonder why you thought you were so special.

Review: Bird by Bird

Take the advice, enjoy the humor, and gird yourself for the despair. Lamott has survived her despair and by her example (perhaps in spite of herself) reminds us that you won’t be facing the existential maw, you’ll just be joining the club.

KGB Bar

It’s 1960s, even 50s, East Village slightly subversive chic.

REVIEW: What The Stones Remember

The blurb on the book’s front cover is by Alice Munro, “To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment.” Read it and become enchanted.

From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher

Acceptance seems like the end of the road but there are always significant events to follow. A friend is dealing with her editor’s broken leg, which will delay her book. Any physical problem with an agent or editor at the publishing house is disturbing. A former agent of mine’s husband fell very ill and sheContinue reading “From acceptance to publication: Changes at the publisher”

FROM ACCEPTANCE TO PUBLICATION: Dumb Webinars

Steve Harrison has had lunch with a large number of people who have made millions of dollars off their books.