Editorial Anonymous

I have just read yet another reference (in a review on Fuse #8) to "the current 'Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus' trend of ...

The Children's Book Insider has a great feature article about the mindset of successful authors. (It's near the bottom of the page....

This and many more are HERE.

Melinda Beavers wins! Congrats, Melinda! Miss Snark had a vicious poodle, and I have an adorable paper-eating monster. (So I believe I wi...

Here's the delay .

BookEnds has a great post about divorcing your agent—one that gives you an idea of how much work an agent does. Good reading for everyone....

Rejection has been with us since our very beginnings; it could be termed an innate human quality. I think it's high time we embraced r...

BookHabit is running a contest for undiscovered authors, and the grand prize is $5,000 (USD). The contest ends in May. Minimum length for a...

Ok, so I've been procrastinating. And indecisive. I'm not proud of myself. But it was so hard to choose! The final vote I leave to m...

I have one picture book published with a medium-sized NY publisher, a handful of magazine sales (to well-known children's magazine), and...

101 Reasons to Stop Writing , which I've been enjoying for their monthly demotivators, has an interview with Lynn Viehl (who writes for ...

Apartment Therapy brings us the stairwell as bookshelf (Thanks to R N Bramwell for the link): This is great fodder for my fantasy of an apa...

The Anonymous Publisher Rep answers questions from readers! More to come, he/she says. Just in case his/her identity is guessable, he/she ...

Beloved Uncle Al blogs about Hollywood writers turning to writing for children, you know, when they don't have anything better to do. I...

The Anonymous Book Buyer responds to some reader questions (and assures me she'll respond to more as time allows): Maybe you can explain...

Or at least, they prefer writers who don't use the zoom lens when boys do cry. This and other insights in a very good conversation about...

I've invited Anonymous Publisher Rep and Anonymous Bookstore Buyer each to send me a guest blog post, and they (COUovereager foolsGH) ha...

This is just to say I haven't forgotten the suggestions you made at new year's. I haven't been able to give them as much thought...

If you've noticed a sudden spike in the number of typos in this blog, it's because for the last few posts I haven't been able to...

The following is not a query; it is not a submission. And whatever the author thinks, it is not a marketing plan. It is an email I received...