Network: How to Use LinkedIn to Connect With Your Community
While other social networking sites are useful for playful community-building, LinkedIn provides a place for professional writers to focus on sincerity when creating connections.
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Department: The Practical Writer
Consider the Elephant: Nine Ways to Feel a Bookstore
For the average author, a bookstore can be either a place of solace or a source of anxiety—a sacred temple of literature or an intimidating marketplace where only the bestseller survives. The bookstore is many things to many different people, but in the age of Amazon, is it really the best place to sell a book?
Back From the Dead: The State of Book Reviewing
Despite the recent collapse of book review sections in newspapers and magazines, the form is still thriving across a variety of venues, from web-savvy publications to local papers.
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First: Mary Johnson's An Unquenchable Thirst
For Mary Johnson, a former nun in Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity, writing paved the path toward understanding her complex and sometimes embattled spiritual journey.
Network: How to Use Twitter to Connect With Readers
Public relations consultant Lauren Cerand offers tips for how to use Twitter to promote yourself and your writing, engage with your readers, and stay current on the publishing and literary scenes.
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Social Media for Authors: Forever in Search of Buzz
Public relations consultant Lauren Cerand offers tips for how to utilize Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and community Web sites to not only persuade a reader to buy a book, but to do it now.
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First: Charles McLeod's American Weather
For debut fiction writer Charles McLeod, the path to publication led across the pond, to Random House UK.
Bullseye: How to Submit to Beloit Poetry Journal
The editors of the sixty-one-year-old Beloit Poetry Journal, which has published the early works of luminaries from Charles Bukowski to Anne Sexton, are looking for poems that pass the “so what” test.
The Dotted Line: Navigating Literary Magazine Contracts
Before signing a publication contract with a literary journal, writers should consider the long-term implications of the agreement. One short story writer offers a rundown on industry standards.
Publishing in the Twenty-First Century: An Interview With John B. Thompson
Gabriel Cohen, coordinator of Sundays at Sunny’s, one of New York City’s longest-running literary reading series, talks with John B. Thompson, author of Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century, who demystifies the complexity of the book-publishing industry in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
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