eReaders Through The Eyes Of Thriller Writers
What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...
What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...
Carol Hoenig | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books
When other girls were asking for Barbie dolls, I was wishing for a typewriter, one that would actually tap out a world of my own creation.
Amelia Gray | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books
Assumptions that the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009 emerged from the hazy cigar smoke of an old boys' club are likely misguided.
Michael Ashley | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
You don't know the right people and traditional publishers don't believe your book will ever sell. Fortunately for you, the publishing industry is in transition and you might have a chance.
Mark Coker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books
Writers are artists, and artists are compelled to express themselves, even if only to an audience of one.
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books
I've been in publishing for more than 20 years, I've attended my fair share of writer's conferences and workshops, and in my experience, the poet Alle...
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
These last two weeks seem to be all about books by non-writers and we felt it was time to change the conversation. We asked writers--colleagues and fr...
Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...
npr.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
NPR has a host of great author interviews every week, and we thought we'd bring you the best of the recent ones. Listen below for three really great o...
Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...
Rebecca Walker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books
I love the form and feel it is mine the way others feel poetry or the short story is theirs, but memoir is still seen as the first cousin of the tabloid, is it not?
Jean Carnahan | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
Conceived on the beach, The Tide Always Comes Back is woven with hope, humor and gentle reminders of what we know to be true.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
When we buy a copy of a book, we own that copy. When we purchase, for almost as many dollars, a Kindle or other electronic version of a book, we have not really bought a copy of the book.
Jean Naggar | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books
As we head at a fast clip into an unimaginable future, we need to keep a clear vision and a firm grip on what had meaning in the past. The desire to shape and share our stories is embedded in our DNA.
Tamar Chansky | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
SEO is stealth, it's sleek; it's all about titles that are short, searchable and to the point. It doesn't cater to the clever book title or site name, it could care less about how erudite you are.
The Wall Street Journal | DALYA ALBERGE | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
In a success story reminiscent of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's, Ms. James is a mother and first-time author who is going from nothing to becomin...
The Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
At 76, Mr. Roth continues to explore the themes that have defined his work: the eroding of family ties; man's struggle with depression and loneliness ...
Amy Dickinson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
What I learned during my book tour is that I was dying to have people actually read my book, and if they were going to read it, I was first going to have to sell it to them.
Eileen Gittins | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
Capturing one's best images, thinking, learning and experiences in a book need no longer be something most people aspire to but never accomplish.
Joy Preble | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
Debut author life is full of false starts and hesitations. Mostly you have no idea in hell what you're doing. You race across streets -- metaphorically speaking -- hoping you won't crash head first into someone's sedan.
Wednesday Martin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
Selling a book, to me at least, feels an awful lot like flirting, and also kind of hand-holding, and also like being in an very committed relationship with many, many people at once.
Kenneth Hartman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books
The first time I read Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward I was in the hole for inciting a riot. At the time, I'd served only the first ten years of my life without the possibility of parole sentence.
Liz Welch | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
I had been trying to write my story for several years, haunted by one friend's comment. "Great," he had said to me, drinking a cup of coffee in my kitchen, "another memoir about a mother who dies from cancer."
Dallas Clayton | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
I created An Awesome Book to try to speak to the idea of moving our amazing wild imaginary dreams just a little bit closer to those more tangible, simple daytime aspirations.
Holly Goddard Jones | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
I'm a southern Kentucky native -- grew up just a few miles away from the Tennessee state line, turned to Nashville in my growing up as the nearest "real" city -- and yet this weekend's Southern Festival of Books was my very first.
The New York Times | PETER WAYNER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books