Writer Unboxed

Who’s the new favorite for the Booker Prize? Who’s going to make newspaper history by using scented print? Who’s experimenting by releasing chapters on Facebook? Check out the latest Books & Business news HERE.
And keep going with those great words! (See the latest additions to the contest and get all the info HERE.)
Write on, all!

UPDATE: WRITER UNBOXED’S CONTEST, CONTEST IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED! THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED. KATH AND I WILL BE NARROWING THINGS DOWN TO THE “TOP TEN.” STAY TUNED FOR PHASE THREE, WHERE YOU WILL VOTE ON THE WINNER.
Thanks to the ultra-generosity of Alice Pope and the Writer’s Digest staff, I have in my possession a full […]

Thanks to everyone who voted for Writer Unboxed in the Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll!  We appreciate it so much!
Many of you have probably already heard about the death of the controversial Sobol award, beaten down by critics across the country. Now there’s a new contest, which though seemingly more respectable and trustworthy, is still […]

Writer Unboxed is in the running to be named one of the best Writers’ Resource sites in the Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll. Love us? Hop on over HERE and vote for us. (Scan down; it’s alphabetical.) Voting runs through Monday, January 15th. Thanks!

Today’s post comes from guest blogger and winner of the Writer Unboxed AlphaSmart 3000 contest Kelly Boyce, who has a great blog site of her own called It Was A Dark & Stormy Night. We asked Kelly if she would like to elaborate on the killing of her muse for WU and she said she’d be […]

The wait is over!
Deciding on the best entry in the Writer Unboxed AlphaSmart 3000 Contest was a wee more complicated than we thought it might be (a little like juggling three trumpets, maybe).
Wanting to rule out any possible bias, we asked Kath’s hubby to take all the entries and plop them–without names, links or […]

I’m turning into a hack. That’s right: this morning I outsmarted Blogger. First by uploading an old template when our old one “failed” (not showing anything of our site but the first three posts), then figuring out how to link to a picture outside of Blogger without actually using Blogger’s wildly temperamental upload software (which […]

If you’ve sensed any delirium around Writer Unboxed lately, there’s good reason for it. Not only have we been busy lining up some seriously kick-heinie interviews for you, we’ve been making plans for a cutover to a new site at WordPress. Inkygirl Debbie Ohi is designing our new masthead, so we have every confidence it’s […]