If you have ever had a job working in an office, then you have probably heard plenty about productivity. Many bosses take great care about finding out how productive potential employees will be when looking to hire new staff, and…

The contents of this post are an alphabetical arrangement of two lists that have been circulating among writers and editors for many years. In case you have missed out all this time, I’m sharing here the wit and wisdom of…

“On the title page it is stated that, “The book is meant to be a warning of what very well may happen if policies, laws, and business directions are not changed quickly.” I think that this book would be a…

High-tech becomes high-risk in Denise Robbins’ novels. The New Hampshire based author uses two decades of experience in computers to explore the killer possibilities in technology. Denise integrates her knowledge of computers and technology along with secrets, intrigue, suspense, and…

Last night’s PDX WordPress Meetup Group: WordPress Codex Night was a resounding success. In just under two hours, 130 changes were made to the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. On the informal WordPress Documentation Team Task List,…

Dan Mager’s Partyknife is available now for exclusively through the Bird LLC site, prior to the official release date of June 4th. That’s the trailer for it below.…

This week, Random House is hiring a new editor, while HarperCollins is looking for a rights coordinator. Rodale is seeking a publicist, and Hachette Book Group is hiring a publicist, too. Get the scoop on these openings and more below,…

What book are you most excited about this year? Over at Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert has published her annual “BEA Galley & Signing Guide.” The handy resource will help you make sure you can find all the galley copies and…

What book are you most excited about this year? Over at Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert has published her annual “BEA Galley & Signing Guide.” The handy resource will help you make sure you can find all the galley copies and…

Want to finish your book this summer? From July 16 through August 1, 2012, Mediabistro will host its first Literary Festival & Workshops. Among our long list of guests, Rebecca Skloot (pictured) will share some Unconventional Publicity tips and Constance …

The days are getting longer and warmer. Summer is on the horizon. And people are bringing out their sunscreen, beach chairs, and eReaders. Yep– it’s true. Anyone go to the beach last year? It looked like an outdoor Nook and…

Vintage has sold a combined total of ten million trade paperback, eBook and audiobook copies of E.L. James‘ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy in the last six weeks. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group president Anthony Chirico had this statement: “This…

John Oakes, the co-founder of OR Books, has written an opinion piece for Publisher’s Weekly, encouraging publishers to free themselves from the traditional print book supply chain (as well as from the shackles of Amazon) by selling eBooks directly…

By David S. Atkinson The child voice has amazing potential in fiction when used the right way. Few authors seem to recognize what it can do, or just don’t choose to utilize it. However, The Land of Decoration amply demonstrates…

Actress and author Carol Burnett has landed a book deal with Simon & Schuster to publish Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story. The memoir will explore her “relationship with her daughter Carrie Hamilton, an actress and writer who…

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the eBook rights to “We Can Remember it For You Wholesale,” the short story by the late Philip K. Dick that inspired the Total Recall movie in 1990 and an upcoming remake (trailer embedded above).…

British nutritionist Venice A. Fulton has scored a 7-figure book deal with Grand Central Publishing for his diet book Six Weeks to OMG. The book first hit the scene as a self-published work. In the book, Fulton shares his diet…

In 1990, the phrase "bona fides" appeared four times in The Times, according to our archive: three times in editorials and once in Sports. Last year we used the term - a Latin phrase meaning "good faith" - 93 times,…

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“That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything—every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human…

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The following poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer is the second in a series of related poems called Southern Fictions. Despite all the protective barriers we put up between us and the world, there’s always…

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I’ve been in the publishing industry for more than a dozen years now, and along the way I’ve noticed a couple of things about editorial calendars. First, they are utterly critical for any content marketing program to be successful.…

A guest post by Dr John Yeoman of Writers Village Tell me, how should I have answered this email? ‘Dear Sir or Mdm I dremed of being writer since I was litle. I have a realy good story it realy…

Advertise here via BSA Have you ever read a story you wrote and feel like it’s missing something? It’s probably got something to do with that age-old writing advice: “Show, don’t tell.” But why does “telling” fall flat? The part…

Orange Prize for Fiction co-founder Kate Mosse revealed today that the mobile phone company Orange will end its sponsorship of the U.K. literary award that bears its name. The Prize for Fiction carries a £30,000 award, and winners receive a…

Perhaps you’ve heard that there’s a brand-new, never-before-attempted survey coming out later this week on self-publishing and self-publishers. Real data from real authors is something we’ve been lacking in the indie publishing field. We try to get insight from comments…

The WordPress Meetup Group in Portland, Oregon, has invited me to tonight’s meetup at the US Bancorps Building in downtown PDX to talk about the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users, and how to contribute. I’ll show them…

Last weekend at the Pasadena LitFest, BookBaby president Brian Felsen had the opportunity to interview Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander (picked for Oprah’s Book Club) and Paint It Black. They discussed, in part, her famous 10 Writing Tips article…

Today we get the first clip from Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film The Master, which will be released on October 12th. The film, written by Anderson, stars Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.…

Should there be a ratings system for young adult books? Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne studied the 40 YA books that topped the New York Times bestseller list in the summer of 2008, identifying 1,500 “profane words” in the…