Is He Really Making a Grand a Day?
It’s damn near impossible to get an accurate gauge of writing finances. As a whole, writing isn’t a highly paid profession. And let’s be honest, the writing community can be a tad gossipy and snarky as well. Which makes everyone get all coy when money comes up, as opposed to say professional sports or the…
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No Vikings in Hawaii
Wells Tower exploded onto the literary scene with his 2010 short story publication Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned that featured mundane domestic trivialities set in unusual locations and time periods. Most notably, he had a great group of Vikings sitting around, bitching about having to go plundering again, not terribly different than dudes today griping about…
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Atkins and White Team Up for Workshop
Okay, so I’m biased here. But Ace Atkins has been a longtime favorite around these parts, and since I originally crossed paths with the former newspaperman, he’s gone on to even greater accomplishments in the literary world. Today, in addition to writing his own books, he also makes the bestseller lists as the writer for…
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Continents for Your Comparable Title are Running Out
In the publishing world (and movies, music, theater, and elsewhere I would imagine), books are often pitched by referring to a popular title and then putting a spin on it. This helps prospective editors contextualize the book and, hopefully, convince them to offer a deal. Coincidentally, I just noticed a trend that’s hit really quickly,…
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Proposed Budget Zeroes Out Arts Funding
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget was released this morning. And, as bookish folks feared, it’s not pretty for the arts. The Washington Post has a useful interactive webpage that shows just how departments are affected. The National Endowment for the Arts is among several being zeroed out. Zilch. Nada. To see the potential literary impact…
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