Hunger Games Lessons
Hunger Games trilogy may bring young adult readers and their parents together for a summer of interesting discussions
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Bookstore Appearances 2012
Publishers like writers to do the traditional bookstore tour. Friends have traveled as far as the Virgin Islands to do readings. With the right combination of store personnel and audience, a bookstore reading is a wonderful experience.
Continue reading →Submishmash Thoughts
With the spread of systems like Submishmash it appears more literary journals are following the corporate staffing groups’ path.
Continue reading →Work Travel
Whether sitting in economy class, first class, or on a corporate jet, a family person is always alone at the end of a day of business travel.
Continue reading →Redesign the MFA?
What in the traditional MFA curriculum prepares writers for this new expectation of developing a strong potential audience while mastering their craft?
Continue reading →Final AWP/Involvement
Think about what sessions you would like to attend in Boston (or Seattle or Minneapolis) and visit the AWP site to learn about how to make the next conference as successful as Chicago.
Continue reading →Social Media/AWP
Many writers own their websites, including Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Weiner, Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Atwood, and Todd Boss. They invite readers to stay for a few minutes.
Continue reading →Working AWP
AWP, one of the largest gatherings of creative types in the country, has its own interesting cast of characters walking the halls
Continue reading →The World is Over/AWP
If merely publishing is what makes your career successful, the entry point is easy. If feeding the kids is what you need, the bar is higher. A totally personal question.
Continue reading →Windy City/AWP
Temperatures in the Windy City on Leap Day 2012 reached sixty as AWP check-in began.
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