Archive for January, 2009

Top Tips for Maxing Out Your Productivity, Part 1

Today’s guest blogger is the awesome Kay Cassidy! Kay not only has an MBA and teaches marketing and business workshops to writers around the country, but she’s a fabulous writer! She was a 2008 Golden Heart Winner (RWA) and writes fiction for teens that she says she wishes was based on real life. Her debut [...]

Recession-Proof Your Publicity Campaign for the New Year

Please note: Susan Schwartzman, an independent book publicist, is one of WU’s new contributors. This is her first official post! We keep hearing the bad news: publishers laying off dozens of staff, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt not acquiring new books until further notice, budgets being slashed – which, of course, means publicity budgets that were rarely [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

Our goal here at WU is to help “unbox” genre-fiction writing through a discussion of craft and by interviewing industry pros who can help illuminate the process. Because most everything we do is with you in mind, we’d like to know how you think we’re doing and we’d love your feedback. Would you like to [...]

Happy New Year!

All of us at WU wish all of you a peaceful and prosperous New Year. Stay safe, enjoy loved ones, sleep in. 2009, here we come! Image of Sydney Harbor by Commader-richo.