Despite the fact that I told everyone at Capitol Letters Writing that I am biologically incapable of acceptable facial hair, they insisted that I take part in the 2009 Moustache-a-Thon, a month long, hair-lip marathon to benefit CLWC fundraising efforts. Here are the details of how the whole experiment works, but here’s the bottom line: [...]
Person I know Brian Christian (who’s got a monster essay up at AGNI right now) just launched Ink Node, a sort of online writing boutique that abandons the traditional, content-bundled, editioned format of lit journals for something “issuelessly published, virally edited, stigmergically read, and complete with feed subscription and custom, poem-by-poem and story-by-story recommendations.”
The inventiveness [...]
So it’s day 1 of the annual AWP conference, perhaps the largest convergence of academics, small publishers, big publishers, lit journals, writers, emerging writers, editors, and agents in the country. I’m sitting in my hotel room in Chicago, awaiting the arrival of not just a number or people whose flights have been delayed/canceled, but also [...]
Recently my friend Daynah g-chatted me with the news that a small used bookstore in her Seattle suburb carried in their one-dollar bin a hardcover copy of A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Nonfiction, Hayes B. Jacobs‘ 1967 how-to that aims to teach people how to write “non-fiction that is readable, that informs, persuades, [...]