Doris Booth

Doris Booth

Doris Booth is the founder and editor-in-chief of Authorlink®, a literary marketplace and publishing industry resource she launched in 1996. A former journalist, she has spent decades working inside the publishing business as a semi-retired literary agent, with a track record that includes major sales to Big Five publishers and two true-crime projects that went on to become Netflix adaptations. As co-agent with the late Peter Miller, she helped place the Sons of Sam project with Quirk Books/Andrews McMeel. That combination of newsroom discipline and hands-on agenting experience is what shapes Writing Insights: each post reflects what Doris has actually seen work — and fail — across thousands of manuscripts, queries, and author conversations, rather than generic writing advice recycled from elsewhere. It's why writers return to Authorlink month after month for craft guidance grounded in real publishing outcomes, not theory.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE: Farah Ahmedi

THE STORY OF MY LIFE: Farah Ahmedi

An Authorlink interview with Farah Ahmedi, one of three finalists for The Story of My Life A project of ABC-TV and Simon & Schuster. Doris Booth April 2005 More finalist interviews coming soon.   Story finalist Farah Ahmedi's childhood in...

THE STORY OF MY LIFE: Betty Ferguson

THE STORY OF MY LIFE: Betty Ferguson

One in a series of three Authorlink Interviews with Finalists for The Story of My Life A project of ABC-TV and Simon & Schuster By Doris Booth April 2005   Betty Ferguson, one of three finalists in The Story of My Life contest Everyone has a...

THE STORY OF MY LIFE: Mercedes Florencia Brudnicki

THE STORY OF MY LIFE: Mercedes Florencia Brudnicki

The third Authorlink interview of three finalists for The Story of My Life A project of ABC-TV and Simon & Schuster By Doris Booth April 2005   Mercedes Florencia Brudnicki, finalist in The Story of My Life contest Everyone has a story to tell, but few have...