Lately I've been writing book proposals for other people, and when one went out, two publishers responded right away. One offere...

       Lately I've been coaching people writing fiction, and have noticed some big differences between published and unpublished ma...

          Happy Thanksgiving, all! I'm still technically on vacation until tomorrow, and I must say, I'm still recovering from...

       As an author who submits to editors and a professional editor myself, I have questions for people on both sides of the editing p...

I spoke at the SCBWI Michigan Fall conference in Detroit this past Friday and Saturday--it was a wonderfully-organized and a...

           Earlier this summer, I read this article in the Atlantic and it really struck a nerve. It was written by a Princeton profes...

As an author, I get editorial letters; as an editor, I write them. How do you handle them when you're the author? How do you want the...

Some of you may have noticed that I've had the same book on the right for the whole history of this blog (and for quite a few years ...

I have too many books, I know it, I'm trying to get rid of some. But even after filling 2 boxes, my shelves still look almost the s...

I was looking for an article I read recently about how the mass market format is dying, and instead I came across this rather depressing...

It's summer intern season at work. Hachette Book Group has a great summer internship program (and yes, it's paid. If you...

As Grace reported a few weeks ago , I was promoted to the position of Fiction Editorial Director . I've been asked by different p...

      I'm now in Sydney for the third and final leg of my trip to the other side of the world. I haven't had much free time (th...