Network: How to Use Pinterest to Connect With Readers
Charlene Oldham, a freelance writer and professor of journalism and business communications, offers advice to writers about how to use Pinterest to connect with and inspire readers.
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Department: The Practical Writer
Campaign for Cash: Crowdfunding Tips for Writers
Gigi Rosenberg provides crowdfunding tips for writers looking to raise money for research trips, workshops, and publication.
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Reality Check: A Simple Self-Publishing Plan
Poet Reagan Upshaw argues for self-publishing as a common sense strategy for connecting with readers.
The DIY Author Tour: How to Sell a Book in America
Memoirist Ron Tanner documents the experience of doing a forty-state, sixty-city book tour in a customized camper van with his basset hound, Cleo.
Making David Sedaris Laugh: Lessons Learned on the Book Tour
Best-selling novelist Chuck Palahniuk writes about the successes and failures of the often exhausting, but always necessary author book tour.
Agent Advice: Rebecca Gradinger of Fletcher & Company
Literary agent Rebecca Gradinger explains why writers need agents and offers tips about best practices for finding one.
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Bullseye: How to Submit to Arcadia
The editors of Arcadia offer tips on how to submit to their biannual journal of poetry, prose, drama, and art.
First: Claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn
After a hotly contested auction among ten major publishers, twenty-eight-year-old Claire Vaye Watkins’s debut story collection, Battleborn, has arrived.
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Network: How to Use Tumblr to Connect With Readers
Fiction writer Jami Attenberg shares her experience using social-media platform Tumblr and offers advice to authors who want to get started themselves.
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After the Book Party: Three Paths From Publication
Three authors who followed very different paths to publication in 2011 speak about what they learned after their books were published, including hard lessons about publicity and reviews, readings and events, and advertising and sales.
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