Dan Wickett, founder of the Emerging Writers Network and the hardest working man in the literary blogosphere, has banded together with two other book lovers to launch Dzanc Books. Their goal with this new 501(c) not-for-profit literary venture is to assist literary journals in reaching the largest reader base possible, to develop educational reading and writing programs in…
Well, the NFL finally kicked off its regular season. Thank God. I’m not that huge a fan of NFL football. I’ll watch the games, and certainly I enjoy the chilly-nights-in-fall ritual of Monday Night Football. But I don’t have a favorite team and I certainly don’t need to deal with yet another obsession, which is precisely…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, bestselling author and Mississippi native John Grisham stepped in to help with a tremendous act of charity. And on Saturday, one family moved into their new home, courtesy of the writer.
Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, is interviewed in the September 18th issue of Newsweek. The online version of the piece is available here. It’s an interesting interview and Frazier talks about the massive sale of his newest novel, being a Southerner with a Ph.D, and his children’s take on marketing hype.…