Literarily Speaking is honored to have Gordon Gumpertz, author of the action/adventure novel, Red Hot Sky, here today in our featured series, This Is Your Life! Gordon Gumpertz brings fiction readers another exciting action/adventure experience in his new novel RED…

After 13 apostrophe catastrophes, this menu from Taco Rio in Wichita, Kansas, finally gets it right at the bottom right side of the menu.Thanks to Spencer for sending in this deluge of apostrophe catastrophes.…

Like a lot of freelancers, I do have a friends-and-family discount. Very few people in my life get completely free copywriting and editing help, no questions asked—but there are a handful of people I do that for. Close family. Close…

Photographer Rachel Hulin captivated the Internet with photographs of her baby floating like a pint-sized superhero through different hotel rooms, barns and stairways. In an email interview, Hulin told GalleyCat that she hopes to expand her surreal and super-cute series…

HarperCollins will publish Justin Bieber‘s second book, Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started, in September. The photo book will feature images from the pop star’s world tour. Amazon UK already has the book listed for preorder. Here is more about the title…

We are proud to be on Technorati’s list of the top ten book sites online. We join a host of great sites, blogs that this GalleyCat editor reads every single day. Technorati currently tracks 16,814 book-related websites. Below, we’ve linked…

The great publisher Barney Rosset has passed away. Rosset bought Grove Press in the 1950s, championing the work of countless writers, including: Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm X, Pablo Neruda, Kenzaburo Oe,…

This week, Random House is hiring an assistant manager in its marketing department, while ABRAMS is seeking an operations associate. Trailer Park Publishing is on the hunt for an account/sales executive, and Jane Rotrosen Agency is looking for a manager…

Use of quotation marks for dialogue is fairly straightforward; several posts on this website that deal with the topic can by found by searching for “quotation marks.” This quiz deals with other uses of these emphasis markers. Read the following…

B.A. Chepaitis will be touring in March and April with her sci-fi paranormal novel The Green Memory of Fear. On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams uses her empathic gifts to make criminals face the fears that drive their heinous acts.…

One thing that happens when you go to a writing conference is you end up spending a lot of time with writers. Many kinds of writers. And that can be very instructive. There were several hundred writers in attendance at…

To celebrate the 50th birthday of the great David Foster Wallace, we’ve collected free eBook editions of seven books that inspired the late novelist. Follow the links below to download the books. We adapted the list of books from…

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Lionsgate has released the full track list for The Hunger Games movie soundtrack. According to Entertainment Weekly, “The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 & Beyond” album will have 16 songs. It will be released on March 20th, and the…

TV host and author Stephen Colbert has inked a book deal with Grand Central Publishing for his children’s book, I Am a Pole (and So Can You!). Publication is set for May 8, 2012. Here’s more from the publisher: “The…

Going through the process of finding an agent is both frustrating and discouraging. Today there are five things to keep in mind about what agents and editors are looking for in new writers. First, they must be social media savvy…

In a move to compete more directly with the Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble has released the $199 8GB Nook Tablet, a 7-inch color screen eReader tablet. Like the Kindle Fire, the new 8GB Nook Tablet has half the storage of…

Have you ever tried to write dystopian fiction? We caught up with The Chemical Garden trilogy author Lauren DeStefano and the Dustlands trilogy author Moira Young to talk about the art of writing dystopian fiction.  DeStefano (pictured, left) and Young…

New York Kicks star Jeremy Lin has swept the sports and media world, and everybody is wondering when the basketball star will land his inevitable book deal. You can already buy seven eBooks about Lin on the Kindle, books ranging…

Brian Brushwood’s Scam School: Volume 1, a collection of magic tricks won the “Best Overall eBook” in digital publishing company Vook’s eBook Creation Contest. Joey O’Connor’s book The Grove Center for the Arts & Media won the “Best…

We all make mistakes, and sometimes, we may not even know they are mistakes. Every speaker of the English language commits mistakes. Some may be minor and forgivable, while others ought to be pointed out and corrected. This is especially…

Children’s publisher Capstone has launched a “Join the Revolution” contest for readers in third through seventh grade. The contest will promote Tony Hawk’s 900 Revolution, a science fiction series inspired by legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk. Follow this link for more…

Good morning, friends! I hope you had an awesome Monday. I was not feeling too well yesterday, but today looks really good. I wish you luck in finding new jobs! Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Freelance Content Writers/Editors (Anywhere) Freelance…

After news broke that Amanda Knox landed a book deal for “close to $4 million,” we caught up with journalist Andrew Gumbel–the co-writer working on a memoir with Raffaele Sollecito, Knox’s Italian boyfriend. Like Knox, Sollecito was charged…

The conventions for referring to hair color are tousled. Why is it that we refer to someone with light-colored hair as a blonde (and, rarely, a blond) but we call someone with red hair a redhead? Why are blonde and…

Journalist, former New York Daily News editor and journalism professor Richard Blood passed away this weekend. For twenty years, Blood (pictured, via) taught journalism students at New York University and Columbia University School of Journalism. This GalleyCat editor only spent…

I was having lunch with a friend in the publishing industry recently. I asked him how his job was going—not good, apparently. After telling me a few hair-raising stories about the general lack of support for his creative ideas, my…

there-insertion A term used in transformational grammar for a transformation which relates pairs of sentences by inserting a there-element, such as A baby is in the bath -There is a baby in the bath. The latter type of sentence…

A guest post by Adrienne Giordano, Kelsey Browning, and Tracey Devlyn of the Romance University Many writers have covered the intricacies of a good—and bad—critique relationship. There are some really good cautionary tales out there on how to establish healthy connections…

The San Francisco Writers Conference is going on and I’ve been going into San Francisco for the last three days for presentations, panel discussions and general networking. (The photo above is from the lobby of the Mark Hopkins hotel between…

A site visitor called attention to a sentence in one of my recent posts and asked, because it has two negatives, whether it is grammatically correct. The sentence in question? “In case you hadn’t heard, I couldn’t care less.” The…