“During the event, we’ll offer various meetings and discussion groups to enhance the experience for the writers and readers in attendance. “If any author or publisher would like to pitch a topic, please fill out that portion of this form and give us your elevator pitch of what you’d ...
“You know those writer’s groups where you feel like you give more then you get? Yeah, this isn’t that. Even when I try really hard, I can’t possibly give as much solid, grounded advice as I receive from Linda, Sam, and the BWG members. BWG helped me navigate from draft manusc...
Writers of erotic romance must deal with the possibility of their work being banned at some point. Some of what we write isn’t appropriate for certain age groups, or our material may rub religious readers the wrong way. I make the content clear to customers when working book festivals and ...
“The full-page photos — accompanied by brief descriptions — are mesmerizing. …Laced among these photographs are poems by writers from diverse cultural groups. Anyone picking up this stunning book will experience what speakers of Koasati call “ihoochastontihchotok” (“bringing time back from ...
Writers meet up all over the world. Check out your local library for writers' groups that are open to new members, or consider online forums such as ours,Becoming Writer. I was living abroad a few years ago, looking for accountability, when I found The Write Practice andjoined. The weekly...
In early 1996, Nancy Gill picked up her first book on HTML and permanently said goodbye to the legal field. She has been busy ever since developing web sites for businesses, organizations and social groups in Central California and occasionally beyond. Nancy has served as a member of Team Mac...
When I was starting out, critique groups filled all three needs for me. Thirty-five years later, I’m pretty good about #1 (accountability) but I still need #2 and 3, readers and feedback. Currently I participate in two groups, one with long-time author friends, the other on Zoom wit...
Wilders, who long refused to align himself with European far-right leaders such as Jean-Marie Le Pen and Jörg Haider and expressed concern about being "linked with the wrong rightist fascist groups", views himself as a right-wing liberal. More recently, however, Wilders worked together with...
Proof readingis the lightest form of text correction and is really only suitable for text that has already been copy-edited and for authors who want a near-perfect manuscript prior to publication. The editor will identify simple typos or in-text errors. You will receive a marked-up manuscript...
(particularly black feminist women) on Twitter, in the sense that my feminism is much more humble, realistic and effective now. It’s the exact same thing for other marginalized groups that I’m not part of, like trans women: I owe so many women on Twitter a lot for holding me ...