Writing Insights: How can a writer create a distinctive and engaging voice for their narrator or characters during the early stages of planning a book?
Doris Booth
Doris Booth is founder and president of Authorlink®, the news and information magazine for editors, agents, writers, and readers, ranked among top websites for writers. The company’s separate literary agency represents some bestselling authors, both domestically and abroad. Doris has sold projects to St. Martin’s Press, Simon & Schuster, Sterling Publishing (Barnes and Noble), Berkley Books/Penguin, Farrar Straus Giroux and other dominant houses. She has also been involved in rights negotiations for two hit Netflix docuseries, as well as with other production studios. The agency is not accepting new authors at this time, but writers are encouraged to use Authorlink® as a comprehensive resource.
Authorlink Chat: Huang’s Novel A Deeply Personal Story
Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang, Dutton – Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
Writing Insigihts: How to critique your own work–eight tips
Writing Insights: How do I get someone to critique my writing? I want to know if my stuff is readable.
Author Talk: Nancy Crochiere, on Graceland
Interview: Graceland, Nancy Crochiere, Avon/Harper Collins – Nancy Crochiere delighted readers with her humorous and relatable accounts of family life for thirteen years in her newspaper column, “The Mother Load.”
Hidden Gems: The Wilder Good Adventure Series
Hidden Gems: The Wilder Good Adventure Series, S. J. DAHLSTROM, Paul Dry Books, – A hidden series of older books called Wilder Good Adventures (Paul Dry Books) reminds kids as well as adults that great value remains in the quiet pages of a well-written book.
Writing Insights: What do publishers look for in unpublished manuscripts?
Writing Insights: What do publishers look for in unpublished manuscripts?
Author Talk: The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly
Interview: The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, Katherine A. Sherbrooke, Pegasus Books – Inspired by a true-to-life mystery in her own family, Katherine A. Sherbrooke’s latest novel, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF ASTER KELLY offers an inside look at fashion, movie making, and clandestine affairs in 1940s Hollywood.
Chatbot: Apology to Literary Agents
As CEO of Authorlink®, I have an apology to several literary agents, and a warning to all those who rely on technologies like Chatbot and their alternatives to augment real, human knowledge. In a newsletter we distributed to a limited number of industry insiders, we...
Writing Insights: How does a writer come up with book titles?
Writing Insights – A book title should evoke the feeling of a place, time, or human condition.
Interview: Wild, Beautiful and Free
Interview: Wild, Beautiful and Free, Sophfronia Scott, Lake Union Publishing – From award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman’s bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn’t belong.
