Writer Unboxed

What can I tell you about Michael Hauge? 
First you should know the man is worth his weight in Hollywood gold. He is a script consultant, author and lecturer who works with filmmakers and executives on their screenplays, film projects and development skills. He has coached writers or consulted on projects for Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney, […]

 ….here at WU.  Between unleashing Technorati spiders and Gravatar, Therese and I are excited and honored to be able to announce another contributor to join Marsha Moyer and Jack Slyde.
Readers may remember Victoria Holmes from our interviews with her over at WU.1.  Victoria is the brainchild of the wildly popular YA series WARRIORS, and the […]

I’m not sure what I’m doing here. Girls like me don’t usually hang out in places like this.
A while back I posted an item on my website called “Why Marsha Can’t Blog,” in which I talk about how self-indulgent or irrelevant I find most writers’ blogs, how I’ve always tried to channel my writing […]

Welcome to the new home of Writer Unboxed!
Kathleen: We are excited about our new digs, and we hope you will be too. We decided to move to a WordPress platform because it offered flexibility that the Blogger bloghost could not. In a nutshell, we were boxed by Blogger.
Therese: Isn’t the new site purdy? Aside from […]

We were originally going to move over to the new site today, but then we looked at the calendar a little more closely. Ah, 9/11. So we’ll move tomorrow. Today I want to remember and share a few things about my journey with you as well.
I vividly recall seeing one of the towers collapse live […]

NEW YORK - It’s pay back time for disgraced memoirist James Frey and his publisher, Random House Inc.
Under a tentative legal settlement, readers who said they were defrauded by Frey’s best seller, “A Million Little Pieces,” can claim refunds, an agreement called unprecedented — and understandable — by a leading publishing attorney.
…Paul Aiken, executive director […]

Last week, Kathleen and Therese had the great pleasure of interviewing Theresa Meyers, President of Blue Moon Communications. Theresa’s firm handles publiciting and promotion for fiction authors. Part One of her interview generated plenty of interest. Below is Part Two of our interview with Theresa.
Q: What can writers on a budget do to […]

Oh yeah, we’re moving on up. To that dee-lux blog over at WordPress…
The new hamster wheel for Writer Unboxed is nearly finished. We’ll be doing the crossover soon to our new home. Therese and I are bursting to tell you all our news but we’re holding off until we get the ducks in a row, […]

I read an article recently and thought, “Damn, I wish I’d written that for WU,” and then I read the footer at the bottom of the article that said I could snag it with proper crediting and thought, “Damn, that’s even better.” Enjoy!
The One Secret Of An Unforgettable Story
Recognize any of these images?
- Boys […]

Publicity has become more important as books compete with other mediums for a precious share of the passive entertainment market (I just coined that phrase, feel free to use it–Kathleen). It’s also one of the most misunderstood and feared aspects of industry. The days of letting the publisher take care of promotion are mostly […]