Friday Find: Book Publishing Glossary
I love a good glossary. And this one, from Nathan Bransford’s blog, is an excellent one covering book publishing. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
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Friday Find: Post-MFA Fellowships
Here’s a goodie from our archive: a compilation of fellowship and writer-in-residence positions of particular interest to new/recent MFA grads. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
The Wednesday Web Browser: On Writers Past, Present, and Future
This week’s New Yorker includes a fascinating article on the famed Little House series and its authorship. The article appears to be available only to subscribers or in print, but if you’re free at 3 p.m. (ET) today, writer Judith Thurman will be answering questions in a live chat. As of yesterday, the site was accepting questions for Thurman ahead of time.
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We might be forgiven for being a little envious of this guy.
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You’ve probably heard about consultants who help students apply to college (which can be a controversial topic, as the response to a recent NYT article recently proved). Now, there’s Abramson Leslie Consulting, offering “services for applicants to graduate creative writing programs,” provided by recent graduates of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (services are currently limited to applicants in fiction and poetry).
The Wednesday Web Browser: Notable New Sites/Blogs Edition
I received an e-mail a few days ago alerting me to the news that Tin House Books has redesigned its site and launched a blog. (This might be a good time to revisit my comments about some particularly good reads from Tin House books.)
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Here at Practicing Writing, we take Mark Sarvas’s blog posts very seriously, so when he recently recommended two new online destinations, we listened.
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As you may have heard, the National Book Foundation is celebrating the 60th year of the National Book Awards by offering a “book-a-day blog on the Fiction winners from 1950 to 2008.” They’ve only just started, so it’s definitely not too late to check in.
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Finally, the folks at Writer’s Digest have also just launched a blog, Promptly, promising “a writing prompt-driven community” that will be “shelling out prompts to get your pen moving and keep it that way.” I’ll be following its progress.
The Wednesday Web Browser: Book Review Edition
The literary Internet has been abuzz this week with accounts of a well-known author’s (over)reaction to a review of her new novel in the Boston Globe. But for anyone who’s still interested in pursuing/expanding a professional book-reviewing practice (possible criticism of your criticism notwithstanding), today’s “Web Browser” will point you to a few new resources:
1) There are lots of ways to learn about new books well ahead of publication (which you generally need to do because most review editors aren’t interested in publishing reviews of “old” books). One information source I discovered only recently: Library Journal‘s Prepub Alerts.
2) And once you’ve targeted a book for review/obtained an assignment, you need a review copy. Sometimes, review editors do the requesting. But if you’re the one tasked with that job, be sure to check out the super-useful Book Publicity Blog’s advice.
3) Finally, if you’re seeking paying homes for your work, do check out a resource that was mentioned here on Monday: the just-revised The Practicing Writer’s Directory of Paying Markets for Book Reviewers and its free preview with sample listings!
(I’m happy to discuss more about book reviewing here on the blog. Please use the “comments” section to list questions/issues you’d like the blog to tackle in future posts.)