Writer Unboxed

Barry Cunningham is the Publisher and Managing Director of The Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., the largest publisher and distributor of children’s books in the world. Barry Cunningham has personally discovered some of the biggest names in children’s fiction today, including J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter series) and Cornelia Funke (Inkheart, Dragonrider). He recently […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
It sounds like a plot lifted from a John LeCarre novel, but the real-life poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB (morphed out of the old KGB) agent and vocal critic of the Putin administration, is a real-life thriller waiting to be solved by an intrepid […]

Lately, I envy those writers who claim to sit themselves down at the computer at nine o’clock on the dot every morning and crank out their daily quota of 1,000 words, or six hours, or ten chapters, or whatever. I envy the likes of Stephen King and Nora Roberts, with their seemingly limitless stores of […]

Now that the dust has settled from this year’s NaNo challenge, bloggers have begun to post their experiences.  One of the things I liked about NaNo was the sense of community we writers shared.  And then I could come here and whine about it to the world.
Some of the things I learned during this process […]

My husband came home with a story this past weekend about a co-worker who recently bragged that his wife had already burned through a 40-pound bag of flour making holiday cookies. Holy calories, Batman! I hope you’re giving those sweet bites away to friends and family! Despite my commentary, however, I started thinking COOKIES. I […]

It’s been a real pleasure to interview literary fantasy novelist Sarah Micklem, and I’m sad it’s come to an end.  Below is Part Three of her interview with WU.  You can find Parts One and Two by hitting the link. 
Q: What draws you to the fantasy genre?  Do you find you can say things in fantasy literature […]