Emily Bestler learned early to love books. “When I started reading, I was doing something everybody else in the family did,” she said. “It’s what we did together as a family.” It’s a tradition she’s passing along to her three children – girls 9 and 8 and a boy, 4. They want to be writers when they grow up, though, not an editor like mom.
Editorial Staff
Amanda Patton, Editor at Plume, an imprint of Penguin Putnam, Inc.
Amanda Patton would never give up her day job. “I’m doing what I was meant to do,” she laughs. “I get to talk about books all day—how great is that?” Amanda is an editor at Plume, a trade paperback imprint at Penguin Putnam, Inc.
At The Heart of All Writing
A monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR At The Heart of All Writing By Susan Malone August 2001 We've been talking over the last few months about the nuts and bolts...
Finding Your Hero
A monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR Finding Your Hero By Susan Malone July 2001 One of the biggest areas of confusion I see in novels concerns the Protagonist,...
The Originals by Sarah Byrn Rickman
The Originals The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World W Sarah Byrn Rickman Disc Us Books Inc June 2001 Trade Paperback/413 pages ISBN: 1-58444-263-8 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . brave volunteers answer the call . ....
Writing a Book That Sells
A monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR Writing a Book That Sells By Susan Malone June 2001 Writing a book that sells. That's the aim of all writers, no? It...
Real Writer Vs Pretender
A monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR Real Writer Vs Pretender By Susan Malone April 2001 We've talked before about how the perception in this country that...
There We Stood, Here We Stand by Timothy Drake
There We Stood, Here We Stand - Eleven Lutherans Rediscover Their Catholic Roots Timothy Drake 1stBooks Publishing 02/01/2001 Trade Paperback/170 pages ISBN: 0759613206 . . . Drake (himself a former Lutheran) has chosen an interesting variety of individuals for this...
Editorial Double Standards
How many best-selling novels have you read whose writing appeared inferior to yours? EDITORIAL DOUBLE STANDARDS By Michael Garrett Internationally Published Author, Editor and Book Doctor February, 2001 . . .beautiful writing isn't a pre-requisite for...
What Makes an Effective Plot
A monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR What Makes an Effective Plot By Susan Malone February 2001 We talked last month about how to begin a novel, so let's...
