A monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR Grappling With Manuscript Length By Susan Malone December, 2001 One of the points that...
Read MorePhyllis Grann Named Vice Chairman, Random House, Inc. NEW YORK, NY/11/26/001—Phyllis E. Grann, who stepped down last month as Chief Executive Officer and President of Penguin Putnam Inc., the country’s second largest...
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You want to be published? Novelist Laura Van Wormer can tell you how to do it, for three reasons. First, shes written 10 books since 1988. The most recent, Trouble Becomes Her, the third in the Sally Harrington series, was released in early November by Mira. Second, before she started writing she was an editor at Doubleday. Finally, despite her tenure at Doubleday, she made some of the same mistakes in her writing career that the rest of us do.
Read MoreSimon & Schuster Launches eBookstore on Company Website NEW YORK, NY/11/5/01–As part of...
Read MoreA monthly column written by an Authorlink contributing editor. We welcome your questions, comments and input to this page. ASK THE EDITOR Breaking the Rules By Susan Malone November 2001 Rules abound in the writing world...
Read MoreMaking Writing Career Decisions in Uncertain Times by Amy Crawford Career choices have been challenged in several ways. With the state of our security and economic times shifting beneath our feet, what...
Read MoreThe way to Chris Keesler’s heart is through a good query letter. A feisty love story that knows when to break the rules doesn’t hurt either. Keesler is a romance editor, one of only a few fellas in a female-dominated field. His position on the flip side of the gender divide works to his and his writers’ advantage.
Read MoreA Special Report: Mystery Writers of America Seventh Annual Sleuth Fest March 17, 2001 Fort Lauderdale, FL by G.K. Sharman " . . . aspiring assassins discussed the fine points of murder . . . " ...
Read MoreA 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.
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