Fanfare, please! Ta-da! We have two winners of John Jodzio’s signed short story collection, If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. They are, in no official order: Dani Rice & Jess [If the two of you would e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com (or FB me) with your address, I’ll gladly mail […]
Persistence & Other Such Things When It Comes to Writing
A few interesting articles in November’s Poets & Writers Magazine. Check out the Agents & Editors Q & A with Jonathan Karp, editor in chief of Twelve. Obviously, Twelve is doing something right (publishing one book a month). Fifteen of the first thirty books published by Twelve have been New York Times bestsellers. There’s much […]
Dialogue in Fiction
Today is for writers…or readers who are interested in craft. I just read Benjamin Percy’s fabulous article on “The Geometry of Dialogue” in the Poets & Writers Magazine, July/August 2009 issue. Unfortunately, it’s only available in print, so if you’re a writer, run–don’t walk–to the nearest Barnes & Noble to grab a copy. Percy’s piece […]