Writer Unboxed

Therese here. I came to know about today’s guest, Sarah Callender, after her letter landed in the WU inbox. She was an unpublished writer, she said, with a great agent (Rebecca Oliver) and a spanky new novel (Between the Sun and the Oranges) nearly ready to go out on submission. Did we ever accept guest [...]

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Kath here. Please welcome Jennifer Jabley to Writer Unboxed today. Jennifer’s debut novel for teens, Lipstick Apology, opened to rave reviews. Her new release, Crush Control, is a hilarious romp with a cute premise: Willow Grey’s mother is a famous Las Vegas hypnotist who wants to start over and give Willow a normal life in [...]

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Therese here. Today’s guest is author Kate Lord Brown. Kate’s debut, a sprawling WWII novel about female pilots called The Beauty Chorus, was published in early April. Here’s the back-of-book description: New Year’s Eve, 1940: Evie Chase, the beautiful debutante daughter of a rich and adoring RAF commander, listens wistfully to the swing music drifting out from [...]

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The media — both traditional and social — is doing a fabulous job spreading the word that self-publishing has officially lost its stigma. Outlets as venerable as The New York Times Sunday Book Review and PBS.org and have weighed in on the pros of going solo and how the changing landscape has brought this phenomenon [...]

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One of my favorite bestseller stories is from Tim Ferriss, author of The Four-Hour Workweek. Just about everyone was curious how he managed to hit No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list with his first book.  Here’s what Tim says in his infamous post, How Does a Bestseller Happen? Before I began writing [...]

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Man, have I had a frustrating day. Spent the better part of it beating my head against two things I’m not particularly good at: computer stuff, and graphics. Both are related to my current effort to get some items in my writer’s trunk out of the trunk and into the world of Kindle books. I’m [...]

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What does that fantasy look like to you? How does it look when you project the image of your professional writer self into the future five years, or ten? Before I cracked the ranks, I’m not sure what I thought about what my actual life would look like. As a girl, I’d read a novel [...]

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Therese here. Today’s guest is author Meg Mitchell Moore, whose debut novel, The Arrivals, releases tomorrow! What’s the book about? It’s early summer when Ginny and William’s peaceful life in Vermont comes to an abrupt halt. First, their daughter Lillian arrives, with her two children in tow, to escape her crumbling marriage. Next, their son Stephen [...]

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Kath here. Many of you might recognize today’s guest poster, WU community member LJ Cohen. LJ is a poet and an aspiring YA novelist. She’s been with WU since our early days, and we’re thrilled to have her with us today. Enjoy! ‘Progo,’ Meg asked. ‘You memorized the names of all the stars – how many [...]

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Kath here. Today’s guest post is by WU community member Crystal King. Crystal is a freelance writer and Pushcart-nominated poet who is currently working on her first novel. She holds an M.A. in Critical & Creative Thinking from UMass Boston where she centered her thesis on developing a system to help fiction writers in progress. [...]

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If you’re even a little bit involved in the publishing world–and unless you’ve been, you know, living under a rock–chances are you’ve heard at least some of the talk about the e-book revolution and the debate raging about the benefits of indie versus big six publishing. Now, I’ve had by and large a really good [...]

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