Tuesday April 11th 2006, 8:16 pm
Writing Fiction: Finding an Agent
The advice I give my own students is to market the first novel directly to publishers (again with a query letter and maybe a sample of the script if the publisher says it’s OK). You can reach more publishers in a hurry, and if you do your homework you won’t waste […]
Tuesday April 11th 2006, 1:37 pm
Word Count By Jesse Sheidlower
Subjects: language, english
Tuesday April 11th 2006, 12:29 am
MetaxuCafe
On the back page of yesterday’s New York Times Book Review, Joseph Finder brings a refreshing candor to the dirty little subject of ambition. Serious writers, it seems, aren’t supposed to have any. They labor for art alone; they write “for themselves,” eschewing even the desire for an audience. And if they have any hope […]