Ziff Davis, Inc., a technology media company, has announced the acquisition of ComputerShopper.com, a destination for reviews and comparison shopping of technology products. Founded in 1979, Computer Shopper was initially a print publication, which transitioned into an online destination. The…

Newsweek has decided to declare President Obama as “The First Gay President,” following his decision to support gay marriage earlier this week. The issue includes an article by Andrew Sullivan. The cover includes a photograph of President Obama with a…

Newsweek has decided to declare President Obama as “The First Gay President,” following his decision to support gay marriage earlier this week. The issue includes an article by Andrew Sullivan. The cover includes a photograph of President Obama with a…

Listen: Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman’s latest collection of poetry is Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems (Sarabande Books, 2011). He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and an Elector for the American Poets’ Corner at the Cathedral Church…

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Well, perhaps not quite.
But still, this infographic over at the Weldon Owen site is a brilliant and funny representation of our your idea gets turned into a book. I particularly like the part where the…

Kath here. We’re thrilled that novelist Liz Michalski is back to guest with us! Liz’s last guest post with us was just terrific, and we’re so pleased she agreed to return and discuss a quite unusual way of marketing your…

First off, if you haven’t already heard, the AP Stylebook finally dropped its objection to sentential hopefully (i.e., the “it is hoped” meaning), thanks in no small part to John McIntyre’s agitation. Another shibboleth bites the dust, hooray.
If you’re…

The American Booksellers Association has posted a very useful article explaining how self-published authors can sell their books at a few independent bookstores around the country. We’ve posted links to those helpful resources below, but you should read the whole…

Hailey Leithauser has won the Poetry Foundation’s 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. The 57-year-old poet has been writing off and on since the late 1970s. Since 2000, her work has been published in The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, Best…

Book designer Joel Friedlander talks with BookBaby president Brian Felsen about the why DIY authors should still hire professional designer when it comes time to print books. Firstly, Microsoft Word is not a professional product in terms of typesetting,…

eBooks aren’t just for fans (or writers) of fiction, memoir, and history. Thousands of businesses are also discovering the value of eBooks, both as an additional revenue stream and as a powerful passive marketing tool.
Writing an eBook for your…

Award-winning novelist SJ Rozan and BookBaby president Brian Felsen sat down at the 2011 California Crime Writers Conference to talk about her creative process, how technology has changed the conversation with publishers, and the tricks that create a memorable book.…

Brad Liening:
Dean Young, Fall Higher: “We all think about suddenly disappearing.”
John Hawkes, Second Skin: Wow. That’s all I can say. That, and you should read this book.…

Ashleigh Lambert:
The last book I read and loved was The Transformation by Juliana Spahr. It’s basically a poetic record of Spahr’s attempt to figure out where, how, and why to situate herself in the world. Spahr is a white…

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A guest post by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing Note: If this subject interests you, then you should register for the free live training event that we’re holding next week! Got a new blog? Want to grow it to mammoth…

Attention Bloggers: I’ve seen the future, and you’re missing it.
Oh sure, we bloggers think we’re the most up-to-date, leading-edge, tech-savvy people on the planet.
But one of the biggest changes in the long history of content creation is taking…

In 1984, two artists used a simple process to create a story that captivated an audience for years and generated billions of dollars in revenue.
That same process is being used today by a master copywriter to attract hundreds of…

Today’s word is enmesh, part of this week’s theme, Busted. It is a (transitive verb) and is pronounced [en-MESH]. Click to read the definition, origin and see it in action! Wed: trammel | Tue: mulct | Mon: immure | Fri:…

omphalos: the central point.…

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”…