Category: On Publishing
Second-Chance Books: the Why, the How, and the How Much of Rights Reversion by Sharon Maas
Last week, my six-year-old novel The Violin Maker’s Daughter woke up to new life, with a brand-new cover and brand-new energy. It’s been updated, edited, polished. It’s as if a whole book’s out there: except this time, I didn’t spend hours, weeks, and months writing 100,000 words from scratch. Getting here was a long-winded learning-by-doing […]
The Covid Pandemic Held my Screenwriting Career Captive. Publishing set it Free. By Linda Margolin Royal
In 2008 I decided the time had come to record my father and learn about his life so my children would have a lasting memory for reference. He was 80. His mind was clear and sharp. With a small video camera aimed at him, he began relaying a hair-raising tale of escape and rescue. It […]
An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada
An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada. Interview by Jocelyn Cullity / Truman State University Luciana Ricciutelli has been the editor-in-chief at Inanna Publications in Toronto since 1992. Founded in 1978 with the goal of making current writing on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to […]
Jennifer Cohen: On Writing Falling Forward
As a new mom and marketing executive, it wasn’t always easy to find the time to write, edit, re-write, edit again, but I did it. Because that’s what we do for the things that matter, don’t we? We simply make the time. Falling Forward, my debut contemporary women’s fiction novel, was published on May18th, 2020 […]
Second Chances
By Anju Gattani They say cats have nine lives but life doesn’t offer a second chance, at least not in the world of publishing. One book gets one release date, your baby’s out in the world and there’s no turning back. Now, what if I told you that’s not true. Would you believe me? What […]
Independently Minded: One Woman’s Journey from Traditional to Self-Publishing by Anna Campbell
I spent most of my life wanting to be a published writer. By the time it happened, in my 40s, I was convinced I’d never achieve my ambitions. I sold Claiming the Courtesan to Avon HarperCollins New York at auction in April 2006 as part of a 3-book deal. Cue “dreams come true” music. Suddenly, […]
The Trick to Getting Published
By Ruby Speechley Disclaimer: There is no trick, no magic formula. But there’s always a way. Early influences At three years old, before I could even read, my parents bought me a stack of hardback books by Enid Blyton. The brightly coloured characters on the covers were so enticing! I can still recall my deep […]
Female Thriller Author Ditches Traditional Pub Track
In October, 2002, I stood across the street from the old HarperCollins Building at 10 East 53rd Street in midtown Manhattan and pointed it out to my traveling companions. “Someday,” I intoned tearfully, “Someday my novels will be published there.” “Great,” my husband said pointing at our cranky three-year-old in her stroller. “I think Layla […]
The Best Books in Life Aren’t Always Free
If you’re like me (and pretty much every other author on the planet), your most fervent desire is to find readers who’ll love your writing and be ready, willing and able to pay for the opportunity to read all those beautiful words you’ve toiled over. But, to paraphrase our dear writer pal, Will Shakespeare, “therein […]
My Twisty Turny Road to Publication – Susan Crawford
I have always written. When I was a child, I had diaries jam-packed with angst and secrets, and, later, notebooks filled with fairly random thoughts, short-story parts, poetry. Writing was my escape as was reading. It was my therapy, my emotional purging, my joy. When my family exasperated me, an unhappily common occurrence, I would […]
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