Tag archives for Simon & Schuster
The Value of Writing Conferences: Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
The Value of Writing Conferences: Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
JUN 09, 2024
We are in the era of internet writers. Those who have stories to tell, write them and then publish them. Some have training, many don’t. The ...
Sol Stein, Characterization and Novel Writing
Sol Stein, Characterization and Novel Writing
Sol Stein's Take on Novel Writing and Character Development
When you've been studying craft as long as moi , you collect lots of notes. Foraging through boxes recently I found a treasure trove of good ...
How Editing Clients Are Renewing My Faith in Traditional Publishing
How Editing Clients Are Renewing My Faith in Traditional Publishing
It’s no secret; I’m no fan of some of traditional publishing’s practices that include doting (mostly) on authors making lots of money while offering little to the rest. Yes, I ...
Perks of Being A Wallflower’s Stephen Chbosky Talks About Dialogue
'Writing dialogue is the hardest part, no question,' said Stephen Chbosky at the 2013 Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
The goal of good dialogue: Making 'artificial' dialogue sound 'authentic'.
Writers, Why Writers Conferences?
I love cyberspace and the ability to do business easily. But for writers, there's no place like home (s) we visit annually, come hell or high water: writers conferences. Why go? Conferences offer avenues into the community of writers. The ...
Why Indie Author Did NOT Sell His e-Book Rights to Simon & Schuster
Click here to read this inspiring story of an author who initially said 'No Thank-You' to Simon & Schuster's offer to publish his ebook.
'.....At some point, he said, when you’re making enough money, you want to please your customers.'
Publishing World Acclimating to the Digital Revolution
Like the record industry before it, the publishing industry is changing dramatically. Of the Big Seven publishers (Random House, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group (Little, Brown & Co, et al), and Scholastic), six of them–all but ...
Simon & Schuster’s New Self Publishing Imprint: Archway Publishing
Yep, Simon & Schuster have joined the other titans of publishing by adding a self publishing arm that caused one commenter on PW to write this: There's a typo in your headline. I think you meant to say 'Simon & ...