Write to Publish – BE THERE

Hey All, I assume most of the people reading this blog are interested in things literary. Why else would you be reading this? All I talk about is books! So let’s talk about books. And publishing. And graphic novels. And acquisitions. And agents. And young adult writing. And…..everything else? I can’t talk about everything and [...]

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I See Myself in This.

Sometimes we all have mental blocks against certain words. It took me forever to figure out that “a lot” is two words. By forever, I mean I think I was in HIGH SCHOOl despite using the word on practically a daily basis: “I ate alot,” “I loved that movie alot,” “Jessie bugs me alot,” etc. [...]

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The Grove Review

Hey All, Sorry I didn’t post anything yesterday. I’ve been a little busy, but I hope to post something at least once a day in the future! As always, I’m happy to post things that are happening in the Portland literary community. But, here’s some great personal news! First, this blog just got named a [...]

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Author Marketing Tools

I’ve already shown that I’m a fan of traditional publishing, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think that authors have a responsibility to market their own books. Books are increasingly associated with their authors – to the point that people buy books based on their author’s presence online or in the media. And while publishers [...]

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Twitter? Still Skeptical

I have to admit I’ve been very reluctant to join Twitter. It seems silly to post about everything and anything, in short spurts. As this blog shows, I usually have more than a couple sentences worth of whatever to say. But apparently, I’m wrong to doubt the effectiveness of Twitter  - it’s a great way [...]

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Some Publishing Predictions

I was reading Booksquare today, and I noticed an old post from Nov. 2009 called Trendwatching 2010, and I wanted to add my two cents (per usual). Here’s a couple predictions about how publishing will evolve in the next couple years or so. 1) E-books will be huge (duh!) and BOTH the Kindle and the [...]

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Level the Playing Field with E-Formats

One thing I really like about the emerging e-book technology is that it is encouraging smaller publishers to be a little more innovative. Ooligan Press, for example, now has websites and blogs for several of their books. One of the books, Classroom Publishing, even has a blog where teachers are encouraged to post their latest [...]

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Blogs as Literature? I Don’t Know

On The New York Times website Monday, there was an article discussing whether blogs can be literature. The “article” was actually a blog post in the Times’ book blog, Paper Cuts, and the author, Gregory Cowles, suggested that blogs aren’t really literature  - they are “by their nature part journalism, part journal.” I agree with [...]

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