Enjoy a literary picnic: Denver’s own moveable feast.
A writer friend recently asked me a brief but not-so-simple question: How do you decide where to send your work? In other words: Faced with seemingly infinite lists, calls for submissions, classifi…
Artificial intelligence sheds new light on classic texts. Literary theorists who don’t embrace it face obsolescence
Scientific research has consistently found a link between reading literary fiction and human empathy. Let's start taking these findings seriously.
Because why waste money on an English degree when you can just watch Disney movies?
A step-by-step guide to finding literary agents, plus how to select the right agent for you and your work.
Thank you, graffiti artists, for making our streets a little bit smarter. How many of these literary references do you recognize?
10 Strategic Steps To Get A Literary Agent | Four Things An Agent Does | What Does a Publisher Do? | How Much Do Literary Agents Charge? | The Query Letter | 10 Tips for Writing Loglines | How Creatives Reject Rejection | Gallery of Rejection There seems to be a great deal of confusion about how much […]
Trying to get your book published? A literary agent can help. This guide shows you how to get a literary agent from my 40+ years of experience in the field.
It's Open Submission Season, and you know you're ready to be read!
For those unaccustomed to putting themselves out there and submitting to the slush pile, as we so fondly call it, the task can be daunting and even emotionally fraught. But there are perfectly good…
I’ve done a lot of posts over the years on how authors can make the most of their conference experience. I’ve talked about everything from how to talk to agents in elevators, what shoes…
Still curious about the query process? We've answered 10 more common questions.
Hoping to get published? This advice from literary agents about how to start a novel will help you avoid the slush pile.
“If you don’t understand the need to make an argument in scholarly writing, you don’t understand scholarship.”
The blog site Interesting Literature: A Library of Literary Interestingness , and accompanying
What readers who take offense at unfamiliar words and challenging books are telling us about our culture
Passion, sacrifice, a twist: 125 years of book reviews offer the clue to Love Potion No. 9.
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