By Gloriana Susan Stites Bays publishes under the name of Susan Bays, and writes as Susan Stites. She owns and operates Arbutus Press, a small independent company that publishes nonfiction subjects relating to Michigan and the Midwest only. Arbutus Press flourishes due to Susan’s skills, resourcefulness and drive. Here, Susan shares some of her secrets—how she began, … Read more
Google and the Google Book Settlement might be one of the biggest concerns of the entire decade for published writers. Ursula K. LeGuin resigned from the Authors Guild, because of their capitulation. So very much has been written about this wrangle and Google’s rather blatant attempt to completely revise copyright law, and I won’t try … Read more
Just wanted to let you guys know I’m down with the flu, right now. On the mend, but still not anything like functional. In the meantime, just in case you didnÆt realize these resources are out there, let me direct your attention to these two writing-related and markets-listing sites that can save you hours of … Read more
Internships are a standard part of how people learn the publishing business. When you work at a major publisher, you’re gaining experience, insight, and making contacts that can eventually serve you for your entire career as a writer, editor, or even as an agent. If you’re interested in working in publishing, and you’re in the … Read more
We talked about SEO and keywords, last time. I’ve got a post I’ve been working on about agents blogging, but in the meantime I’ve been deleting a fair amount of spam from the comments threads since we went live with comments here. (Thank you to HistorySleuth for the heads-up on this morning’s fresh batch.) So … Read more
By Ursula Vogt Are you familiar with the Report on Pay Rates for Freelance Journalists recently issued by the National Writers Union? You can read a copy at the National Writers Union and you should become very familiar with it. It’s nothing less than an outline of your professional future. If the ability to provide … Read more
By Laura Bell Let’s just get real for a second. There probably isn’t a way to get around them completely. As negative as this sounds, they are growing by leaps and bounds. The use of the Web in advertising writing jobs has just made it all that easier. Here is the latest one that I … Read more
By Mary Emma Allen Promoting Your Books At Writers’ Conferences When I mentioned to a colleague that I’d sold eight of my writers’ resource books and another on Alzheimer’s at a writers’ conference, she remarked that she didn’t know writers could do that. It all depends on the conference, but these are good places to … Read more
By Laura A. Hazan The song New York, New York goes something like this: “If I can make it there I’ll make it anywhere. It’s up to you, New York, New York.” That pretty much sums up the feelings of many writers, too. Breaking into the elusive New York publishing world equals success, and the … Read more
By Rudy Shur Excerpted from the book How To Publish Your Nonfiction Book Over the years, I’ve seen literally hundreds of submission packages. Some of them inspired me to immediately request more information from the author. In other cases, however, I could not send the package to the kill pile quickly enough. Throughout this chapter, … Read more
