The seven-year-old Huffington Post has won its first Pulitzer Prize for “Beyond the Battlefield,” a ten-part series about veterans by military correspondent David Wood. The series is also collected in a $4.99 eBook published by The Huffington Post. Here’s… Read More

For aficionados of classic literature and hip hop music, there is a new game for you. It’s called, “Who said it, James Joyce or Kool Keith?” Hudson Hongo explains the idea: “One is the most innovative writer of the 20th… Read More

Inspired by the NCAA basketball tournament, Half Price Books has launched a Tournament of Villains, pitting 64 evil characters against one another to figure out “who’s the baddest one of all.” The voting period for round one ends today at 2 p.m.… Read More

Listen: Episode #32: Héctor Tobar This episode of the podcast features author Héctor Tobar reading from his New York Times Notable novel The Barbarian Nurseries. Tobar is a Los Angeles based journalist and author. You can hear past episodes of… Read More

Join Anneke Campbell, author of the women’s fiction, Slouching Towards Bellingham (BooksbNimble), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Anneke Campbell Anneke Campbell… Read More

Creative Nonfiction magazine will launch a book imprint called Creative Nonfiction Books. The imprint will debut with two titles in the spring. Creative Nonfiction Books’ initial projects will include several essay anthologies “offering multiple perspectives and appealing to a diverse… Read More

Here are some literary events to look forward to this week To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. The Feminist Press and Emergency Press will be celebrating the launch of Zipper Mouth and… Read More

Back in the 1950s, a bedridden man faced certain death from cancer of the lymph nodes. Tumors the size of oranges had invaded the man’s neck, groin, chest, and abdomen. The patient’s only hope was a new experimental cancer drug… Read More

It is Dementia Awareness Week this week. I got a reminder about this from one of the main charities last Friday, and it prompted me to share some words about the value of writing about dementia. Or rather, more accurately:… Read More

Grammy award winning musician Lenny Kravitz will play fashion stylist Cinna in The Hunger Games film adaptation. As an actor, Kravitz (pictured, via) is best known for his portrayal of Nurse John in the 2009 literary adaptation Precious. Director Gary … Read More

Title: Thom Hunter Author: Surviving Sexual Brokenness: What Grace Can Do Publisher: WestBow Press (Thomas Nelson) Paperback: 192 pages ISBN: 1449707319 Genre: sexuality/relationships/inspirational Who are the sexually-broken? A man with his wife at the table on the other side of… Read More

I recently wrote about the benefits of direct mail for garnering new copywriting clients. Now that I’ve been branded a “lover of all things old-school”, I want to teach you a pre-Internet content marketing strategy that still effectively lands new… Read More

I remember sitting in Mr. Burgerwinner’s calculus class thinking, “Oh man, I am totally hosed.” Maybe for you it was that time you brought your first child home from the hospital. No nurse, no buzzer, just you and … her… Read More

Therese here. Today’s guest is debut author Sara J. Henry, whose novel, Learning to Swim, about what happens to a woman after she dives into Lake Champlain to rescue a boy flung from a ferry and ends up in the… Read More

Frank J. Edwards was born in Rochester New York. In 1968 he entered the US Army and served a tour in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot. He received a BA with honors in English from the University of North Carolina… Read More

IDW Publishing will release a graphic novel to accompany the 3-D horror movie, Humpty Dumpty. Follow this link to watch a trailer for the upcoming comic. Here’s a synopsis of the scary storyline: “Two backwoods redneck brothers are confronted… Read More

Title: Final Mercy Author: Frank Edwards Publisher: Zumaya Enigma Paperback: 300 pages ISBN: 1936144204 Genre: Medical Thriller Dr. Jack Forester, director of the New Canterbury University Hospital emergency department, is about to win an ongoing battle to modernize the ED… Read More

A topic of mention on many blogs and websites recently has been the publication of Lake Superior State University's 2011 Banished Words List. For those who do not know, Lake Superior State University is located in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.Interestingly,… Read More

So you want to be politically correct, you want to be inclusive, and you would never assume that every nurse and every teacher in the world is a “she.” Right? Right. But sometimes this worthy thought leads us to perform… Read More

Over at Conjugate Visits, author June Casagrande shared how she would have edited Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest if the manuscript had hit her desk first. Here’s an excerpt from the edited manuscript, with Casagrande’s… Read More

Terminal Care by Christopher Stookey Page One The death wasn’t the unusual thing.  The unusual thing was we tried to stop it.  That first dying heart came on a Thursday night, a little after midnight on May 5th.  I remember … Read More

Where I come from, children are taught that responding to grownups with a mere “yes” or “no” is impolite. “Yeah” is unforgivably rude. As a child I was taught to say “yes, sir, no, ma’am” and when I grew up,… Read More

discreet adj. Showing discernment or judgement in the guidance of one’s own speech and action; judicious, prudent, circumspect, cautious; often esp. that can be silent when speech would be inconvenient.     discrete adj. Separate, detached from others, individually distinct. Opposed to… Read More

Brad K wants to know what connection there may be between bunting. that half-coil of red, white, and blue handrail decoration and the baseball tactic we call a “bunt.” The short answer is “none.” Bunting as a term for… Read More

A beekeeper should try to replace some of the brood comb every year or so. The brood comb, where the queen lays eggs, is heavy-duty comb - not the light wax that is found in comb honey or beeswax candles.… Read More

Agent Advice is a series of quick interviews with literary and script agents who talk with Guide to Literary Agents about their thoughts on writing, publishing, and just about anything else. This installment features Ryan Fischer-Harbage of The Fischer-Harbage Agency.… Read More

Not all poetry rhymes. It’s common to hear readers criticize poems that don’t rhyme, suggesting, perhaps, that the poets concerned were insufficiently skilled. But a great deal of poetry in the English language doesn’t employ rhyme. Blank verse, for example… Read More

This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Nicole Johnson wants to get babies and their moms some much-needed rest. She’s packed napping plans, schedules, and strategies into her $37… Read More

This new series is called "Successful Queries" and I'm posting actual query letters that succeeded in getting writers signed with agents.  In addition to posting the actual query letter, we will also get to hear thoughts from the agent as… Read More

Yes, it’s in the Urban Dictionary, but then, what isn’t? I’ve begun noticing the spelling “urk” where standard English calls for irk. Headline on the Keene-Valley (NY) Forum: what urks me most Blog title: Stuff That Urks Me Twitter… Read More

Deb had an interesting post this week: “Appearances Count Even When You Freelance” that had me chuckling and also got me thinking about how writers can shut down their sources simply by walking through the door. Freelancers often brag they… Read More