A monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR Shaping Your Story By Susan Malone September 2001 As we've gone through the various...
Read MoreEmily 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.
Read MoreAmanda 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.
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John Connolly is the author of Dark Hollow. Private detective Charlie Parker finds himself hunting a mythical killer through the forests of Maine in winter, decades after his own grandfather tried to find and capture the same killer. (Simon & Schuster, July 2001).
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreBetsy Berne is the author of Bad Timing, a hip, knowing funny/sad first novelthe story of an affair, set in the rarefied climates of Manhattans art, jazz, and magazine worlds. (Villard Books; spring 2001).
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David Ebershoff is author of The Rose City, a collection of seven short stories about men and boys forging their way in a chaotic world (Viking; Weidenfeld & Nicholson in the UK, May 2001). David also is publishing director for The Modern Library , an imprint of Random House.
Read MoreA monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR What's Your Motivation? By Susan Malone May 2001 We talked last month about the...
Read MoreNovelist Neal Bowers’ latest work, Loose Ends (Random House, Spring 2001), is a darkly funny tale whose style and wit mark the debut of a very special writer. Here he talks candidly to aspiring Authorlink writers about his career as an author published by a major house.
Read MoreJulie Salamon is an author, journalist and critic whose books include The Devil’s Candy (a national bestseller), The Net of Dreams, White Lies, and The Christmas Tree–a New York Times bestseller. She is now a television critic for The New York Times. Her latest book, Facing the Wind, A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation (click to order via Amazon.com), will be released by Random House in April, 2001.
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