Thousands of people around the world, including quite a few of my blogging buddies, are taking a shot at writing fiction this month - and why not? November has been National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo for short - for over a decade now, and a multitude of eager writers have signed up and set themselves the goal of producing a 50,000-word novel by the end of the month, encouraging and supporting one another along the way. This… Continue

While many of us seem to be getting book information and recommendations from book blogs and other new sources, traditional review outlets like The New York Times still carry influence and weight - they still matter. To some people, including best-selling authors like Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult, they matter a lot.



Weiner has been vocal for years about the fact that the Times does not review her books, even though she's placed several of them on their bestseller lists -… Continue

I hope they are, anyway.



In addition to being one of my favorite authors, Beth Kephart is one of my favorite bloggers, and I appreciate the way she remains dedicated to blogging. Not long ago, she addressed a Newsweek article on the apparent decline of blogging (quoting Beth quoting the… Continue

It's hard to process everything that goes on in a conference session when you're one of its presenters, and the time goes by a lot faster. Fortunately, my BlogHer'10 panel, "The Evolving Publishing Ecosystem," was liveblogged, so I won't be making this post into a blow-by-blow recap; there will be some of that, but it'll also include my impressions upon reflection,… Continue