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BOOKSMARTS: Using Creative Common Sense
For all those who’ve been working furiously on their Election 2008 book, here are a few tips on getting that book to the editor from a real insider, Laura Mazer. We’re lucky to have Laura here monthly...
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BOOK SMARTS: Translation Station
I’m pleased to bring you Laura Mazer’s monthly column on publishing in the trade world, particularly if you’re an academic. This month she gives important tips on translating your style and structure...
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BOOK SMARTS: Publishing’s Own Housing-Bubble Crash
Sad times over here in the publishing world. The news reports come one after another: layoffs at Simon & Schuster, jobs cut at Random House, a freeze on acquisitions at Houghton Mifflin and layoffs...
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BOOK SMARTS: Tempest Watch 2009
Hi and a happy January to all! I, for one, am having a very good month so far. My authors are all getting good reviews, my Fall 09 catalog copy is almost finished, and I’m close to acquiring a project...
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BOOKSMARTS: A Day in the Life of a Book Editor *
8:25 am. Drive to the office after dropping off preschooler and third grader at respective schools. Discover abandoned baggie of stale cereal on passenger seat under pile of manuscripts. Resist urge to...
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BOOK SMARTS: Twitter for Writers
Man, Twitter has taking some serious hits in the media this week. First Barbara Walters tries to explain Twitter to her cohosts and provokes an explosion of eye rolling and insults, then Jon Stewart...
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BOOK SMARTS: Are You My Editor? And Other Kierkegaardian Confusion
I just hung up the phone with a new author who has a book project that I’m very excited about. I can’t tell you much about her project just yet—I’m trying to keep it on the down low for as long as...
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A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet
National Poetry Month, or April, as it’s also known, prompted me to immerse myself in the newest work of renowned poet and feminist figure, Eavan Boland. Cast over my reading was the shadow of the...
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Girl Revolution
It’s an interesting political moment for women and girls as we enter the countdown to the election. Outrage around the shooting of 11-year-old Malala Yousafzai is still going strong and I want to be...
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Book Smarts: Book Smarts: Not That Kind of Girl
Guest blogger Rebecca Hoffman asks: Is Lena Dunham’s new memoir feminism for a new generation? Or something else? It has been said by women’s historian Laurel Thatcher that “well-behaved women seldom...
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