Do you really need an editor at a publishing house?

I am really annoyed. All this talk about digital. How we read, who will pay, who will be paid and how much is being discussed by everyone in the publishing community who has an opinion -- and that pretty...

Books as Gifts.

Every year, around the holidays, I like to give books as gifts, and that includes giving books to some of the writers I know. That is some assignment; giving a book to a writer. I don't want to send them a book already read; and I don't...

Last Monday night I attended a benefit -- A Night of Comedy with Judy Blume & Friends to celebrate Free Speech and Benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). Judy's children's books are often censored and I am told her books rank #2 on the American Library Association's list of...

I have been lucky enough to take my passion for reading and turn it into a lifetime pursuit, a career. Having been in publishing as a copy editor, managing editor, editor in chief, editor, president and publisher, I have been there for the flash in the pan, the little known...