Writer Unboxed

Therese here. Today’s post is about difficult-to-place books, and here to talk about that is today’s guest, Carolyn Jess-Cooke. Carolyn is an author out of the U.K. who’s published not only a beautifully reviewed “fringe” novel–The Guardian Angel’s Journal (Little,Brown / Piatkus, 2011)–but a book of award-winning poetry–Inroads (Seren, 2010). She’s been called “one to watch” [...]

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I’m so pleased to bring you the first part in a two-part interview with today’s guest, Michelle Diener–a woman who was born in England, raised in South Africa, and who currently resides in Australia. Michelle’s debut novel, In a Treacherous Court, released three days ago, published by the Gallery Books imprint of Simon & Schuster. [...]

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Actually, for a writer, the tomayto/tomahto thing doesn’t matter as it’s all in the pronunciation. But those of us who are published in separate US and UK/Australian editions do have to face a string of differences: got vs gotten, further vs farther and practise vs practice, for instance, not to speak of the Oxford comma [...]

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We have a deal. Sweet words. Unless you mean the U.S. debt ceiling. Anybody feel good about that one? What a bruising fight. What childish refusal to compromise. Everyone is sick and tired of our government, including our elected officials. Trip to Greece, anyone? As the House of Representatives crawled through its vote on Monday [...]

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We’ve heard countless times about the importance of the first page, the first graph, the first sentence. We know that these first words need to hook busy agents and editors quickly if our book has any chance for publication and, once published, has any chance to develop a wide readership. And though we usually have [...]

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One of the questions I’ve been most frequently asked since The Kitchen Daughter was published isn’t about the publication process itself. Other than “How do you balance social media time with writing time?” the question I’m most often asked is “How do you get book bloggers to review your book?” Answer: you don’t, really. You [...]

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