by Steven Gaines
Bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow and
now his memoir One of These Things First
Why are so many people writing memoirs? Expiation? Ego? Money? Revenge? [Read more…]
General
When Good Novelists Write Not-so-Good Novels
What separates someone like myself from most other book editors is that I am a writer first and foremost. There are many advantages to this – sometimes using my own craft I can easily conjure up an example of what I think should be done in a manuscript: embroidering a scene; a certain kind of character description; or even a punctuation of a moment that gives a sense of marking time. [Read more…]
Are Traditional Book Reviews Becoming Less Relevant?
Nowadays, more and more quality books that are being published are being greeted with radio silence. Is it because there are so many more books flooding the marketplace that the publications devoted to covering them don’t have, as an editor recently told Delphinium, “Enough bandwidth to include them?” [Read more…]
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