By Kathryn M. Bowman Johnson Earlier than my mom took sick, I used to be a morning individual. I’d wake earlier than dawn to brew espresso and scribble right into […]
Interviewed by Morgan Baker In 2013, my division chair at Emerson Faculty requested if I might be considering working with a grad pupil on her memoir. I mentioned sure, instantly. […]
By Kristin Owens Readers wish to be pulled into the story rapidly. Riveting opening strains and highly effective first pages can do that successfully. However after hooking them, how do […]
Reviewed by Brian Watson Anthologies are an inherently dangerous enterprise. In What My Father and I Don’t Discuss About: 16 Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster; Could 2025), editor […]
By Stephanie Mitchell I had been teaching a memoir author for six months and my consumer was three-quarters finished with the primary draft when she advised me she was quitting. […]
If in case you have written a nonfiction ebook, the next step is to get the manuscript edited. You want a number of forms of editors, however a developmental editor […]
Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin In All the things is High quality, I’ll Simply Work Tougher: Confessions of a Former Badass (Road Noise Books, 2025), Cara Gormally delivers a quietly radical […]
By Trish McDonald “Don’t you understand every part has an expiration date?” A literary agent requested me this query as I stood in entrance of a panel of publishing executives. […]
By Claire Polders I’m not a poet. I voiced this denial a number of instances in my life and with full conviction. It’s the very first thing I informed Alyson […]
Reviewed by Sarah Rosenthal I grew up in coastal southern Connecticut, doubtless not removed from the place the occasions of Amie Souza Reilly’s essay assortment, Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays, […]