So many choices…so few guidelines or clear answers. How’s an author to choose?

With the proliferation of publishing options—traditional publishing, self-publishing, partner publishing, package publishing, e-books, p-books, and so on‑-many authors find themselves stymied by which route is best for them and…

Inspired by Dane Golden's guest post on YouTube videos, I have begun a new series of YouTube videos, the second of which answers the question "Should all authors (published or not) blog?" Check out the video below for my answer. Also, one announcement: Litquake, San Francisco's literary conference, is introducing Digi.lit, a one-day digital publishing conference that will take…

It’s a zoo out there; the noise in the publishing industry sounds like the cacophony of birds and beasts in a wildlife park; lot’s of trumpeting. The paths to publication appear to vary widely. I see three options: Hold out for the big house (the large publishing conglomerates); find a small, independent publisher who loves your work; or, take the bull by the horns and self publish. I have signed a book publishing contract with a small publishing house. …

Today's post is another in an occasional series presenting something you might not know about poets or poetry.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/monday-muse-asks-did-you-know.html

Mini-novel Focuses on One Woman's Fear of Loving Again

Cassandra Black (a/k/a Amber Creek) has released a new novella entitled Loving a Texan from New Orleans. The mini-novel focuses on one woman's fear of loving again.

Cassandra Black has released a new novella entitled Loving a Texan from New…

I've mentioned the Salt Cay Writers Retreat I'm organizing for October in the Bahamas here before - we've been busy over the past several weeks, and there are a number of items I wanted to share.

After making a site visit to Salt Cay in April with my agent, who is helping to shape the retreat program, we now have a detailed program schedule on the website: http://saltcaywritersretreat.com/program/

I've also posted pictures…

In my experience, Mother’s Day is often trying for mothers who have had losses.  In fact, the national organization RESOLVE, which supports women struggling with infertility, suggests sending a card to women who aren’t able to conceive or have had pregnancy losses. A parent’s love needs to be acknowledged and celebrated even after the death of a child.  Every Mother’s Day, I am reminded of the death of my daughter to SIDS in 2003, my ectopic pregnancy in 2004,…

Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd provide the Thought for the Day:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/thought-for-day.html

Today's Saturday Short is the trailer for Billy Coffey's forthcoming novel "When Mockingbirds Sing":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/saturday-short_4.html 

You probably know that Amazon bought GoodReads at the end of March. A week before that, I had the pleasure to meet Patrick Brown, Director of Community at GoodReads, when he came to lunch at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Brown spoke about the…

Hi girls,

Earlier this month, the London Book Fair hosted all sorts of exciting events for authors.  If you have 45 minutes to spare, I have put a link here to a seminar at the book fair, entitled 'How to Get a Literary Agent'.  It is an up-to-the-minute…

What goes into the design and production of an annotated edition of a Jane Austen novel? Monday Muse finds a short video that gives readers an inside look at the making of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-muse-jane-austen-annotated.html

Today's post is another in an occasional series in which Monday Muse offers facts you might not know about poets, poems, or poetry and publishing.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-muse-asks-did-you-know.html

Today's quote is from Paul Auster's 2003 interview with The Paris Review:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/thought-for-day_21.html

Today's Saturday Short is the wonderful animated presentation of an excerpt from Leonard Lopate's 1996 interview with the late David Foster Wallace.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/saturday-short_20.html

I am so happy to have been asked by Women on Wednesday (PubSlush) to answer questions about my experiences as a writer, getting published, and just being a person! I hope you will check out the blog and would love to hear back if anyone has comments, questions, and especially experiences of their own to share! Peace! Here is the link: http://blog.pubslush.com

I’m just back from the Boston leg of my book tour where I did presentations at the Saint James Armenian Cultural Center in Watertown and the Brookline Booksmith. Former schoolmates of mine organized the Saint James event, and the afternoon was a warm homecoming for my novel and me. The Brookline Booksmith, which has now hosted me for each of my books, also provided an enthusiastic welcome. Just before boarding the train back to New York City I taped a cable TV show called…

I hope I have convinced you in part 1 of this series that a logo is an invaluable addition to your marketing repertoire.  In this post, I explain how to use that logo to create a button…

Those of you who have read my post about Publishing & Professional Courtesy will know that when it comes to having a professional attitude, it goes both ways. We are…