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Renaissance Woman

July 22, 2010

Interview: Gabrielle Harbowy, Renaissance Woman, courtesy of The Dead Robots’ Society Podcast It was a pleasure to meet up with the wonderful crew of the Dead Robots’ Society Podcast this week for an interview. It was a particular honor because the DRS interview with editor Juliet Ulman had been so inspirational for me. Working in [...]

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Marketing Tips for the Introverted Author

July 1, 2010

Fans who see authors at signings and readings and conventions may not realize that authors — just like anyone else — can be introverted, can get stage fright, or can be uncomfortable approaching others or putting themselves in the limelight. It’s one thing for a book to get great acclaim; it’s another thing to squint [...]

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Advice for Copyeditors

June 21, 2010

I’m trying to get ready to go out of town and deal with the loose ends regarding my mother’s estate, so today’s post will be short and sweet, and Thursday’s post may well be absent, or equally brief. This blog often offers advice for new writers, but advice for new copyeditors is very important as [...]

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Cheryl Klein on Commas (and Squids!)

June 17, 2010

Cheryl Klein doesn’t know it, but she was one of my inspirations when I decided to go into editing full-time. I was working at in the book club division at Scholastic, just a couple floors away. I don’t think we ever even met, though we exchanged email once over a typo. But the idea that [...]

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A Good Cause Turns Personal

May 17, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a plug for the Brenda Novak Online Auction to benefit Diabetes research. Brenda, a NYTimes bestselling author, hosts this charity auction every year, with all proceeds going to the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami. I contacted Brenda to extend my appreciation for her efforts, and [...]

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Slush Metrics

May 6, 2010

Editors and agents reach a certain point in their slush-reading careers where a quick glance at a query will tell them whether it’s worth reading onward. You start to learn a certain set of warning signs, over time. For example, you learn after reading lots and lots of submissions that a query letter riddled with [...]

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Books, Critiques and More — For a Good Cause

May 3, 2010

Podcasters aren’t the only writing community to hold auctions for a good cause. The Boom Effect was a huge success thanks to the writers, podcasters and fans who came out to help a little girl who’d lost her mom. Brenda Novak’s auction deserves an equal plug. Brenda is a NY Times and USA Today bestselling [...]

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Round-up

April 19, 2010

It’s been a busy couple of weeks! I went to Ad Astra and had a wonderful time! I staffed a Dragon Moon Press table with Erik Buchanan and Chris Jackson – a couple of really great people. I spoke on four panels, we had a very successful launch (click for pictures) for Erik’s new book [...]

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Dragon Moon Press Store

April 8, 2010

Dragon Moon Press now has a store on Zazzle, featuring mugs, t-shirts and other merchandise… including mousepads made from some of our book covers! This one is for our (forthcoming) anthology of podcast fiction, Podthology, edited by Tim Reynolds: (clicky) If you have a product request or you don’t see your favorite DMP book cover, [...]

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Knowing the Formula

March 11, 2010

Writing advice will often tell you that you have to know the formula in order to break it. Nothing makes that rule clearer than comedy does. As I mentioned last Thursday on National Grammar Day, without an appreciation for the rules of Grammar, we wouldn’t have the basic framework to understand why LOLcats and Oddly [...]

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