PEN America Party
Last night we were at the PEN America annual bash for new members and new books, which is really just a big cocktail party mercifully without speeches. We talked to a number of people, one of them being a guy about…
Authentic Voice
Fiction readers are very demanding creatures. They want their made-up stories to be as close to truth as possible—sort of like vegetarian meat. If they have to pick between two gritty detective novels, one by an ex-cop and the other…
For any writer feeling rejected
For a look at rejection letters from the point of view of an acquisitions editor who has to write them, here’s Jeff Shotts’s blog.
