For those of you stuck in that dangerous position of having more Christmas shopping to do, but no idea of what to get, the bookstore is a great one-stop shop to get something for everybody left on your list. I won’t mention which books I might have gotten for who (you can’t spoil the surpriseContinue reading “Readable Christmas Presents: The Best Books of 2011”
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Dear Indie Bookstores: Stop Judging Books by their Covers
When you’re driving, sometimes you encounter some very important people–read, jerks–who break all the rules; they go fifty miles over the speed limit, weave around you in closely-packed traffic, and almost cause four car crashes before they speed out of sight. Some people get mad at these rude drivers and let out a stream ofContinue reading “Dear Indie Bookstores: Stop Judging Books by their Covers”
Hunting for Undiscovered Publication Paths
As I mentioned earlier, I was slammed with a load of rejection letters this week. This means that I need to start up the submission process again. However, I’ve kind of run out of ideas of where to send my writing. Does anybody have any recommendations for literary journals to submit fiction and creative non-fiction to? Or a resource that listsContinue reading “Hunting for Undiscovered Publication Paths”
Choices: Do New Writers Have to Submit to Online Literary Journals?
Like Chicken Little, a lot of people are running around shouting that the publishing world is going under. This allegedly inevitable transformation to digital is going to delete jobs, while journals and magazines that don’t keep up and reformat for iPad will go extinct. Literary journals are traditionally characterized as small and underfunded. Basically, they’reContinue reading “Choices: Do New Writers Have to Submit to Online Literary Journals?”
The One Downfall to Being Published Electronically: You Can’t Sign a Kindle
Personally, I started out being rather iffy/stand-offish/old-fashioned about the whole e-book revolution. Give me a physically bound book or give me death, I cried over-dramatically. I was particularly fond of Meg Cabot’s continued complaint that ebooks are not bathtub friendly (not that paper books are really very compatible with getting wet either, but at leastContinue reading “The One Downfall to Being Published Electronically: You Can’t Sign a Kindle”
Hannah Karena Jones 