Published poet Lucas Hunt shares his love of money and poetry and how he’s pursued both. Find the day jobs of a poet and the unexpected way poetry can lead to philanthropy. My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my ...
Are you a bit mystified with the book publishing process? Jennifer Scroggins, executive vice president of the hybrid press KiCam projects, explains what hybrid publishing can do for authors. Hybrid, or author-subsidized, publishing is the n...
For this week’s spotlight market, we look at Felony & Mayhem, a mystery publisher that’s currently open to submissions from writers. Felony & Mayhem: Spotlight Market Founded in 2005, Felony & Mayhem started as a publisher o...
The transition from high school to post-secondary school often comes with more commitments. In addition to the typical homework, assignments, tests, and exams from school, there might be a part-time job to pay for those expensive books and ...
Happy pub day to Keah Brown! Her debut memoir, The Pretty One, released today from Atria Books. To celebrate, we’re publishing the unabridged version of Keah’s interview featured in the Breaking In column of the September 2019 issue of ...
The only other girl I could say definitely liked me was Leah. She wasn’t as cute as Jessie, or Pam. Actually, It was hard to describe her face because it was mostly smile all the time. Just at the right moment, she had a stately, even a h...
This may turn out to be a badly-explained thread, but I’ve just finished working out exactly how an amateur detective solves a case and I’d rather run into problems now than 60,000 words in. Since I’ve known all along who ...
There are a few ways in which your crush and your recruiter are exactly the same. You hate when they reschedule. You seem to have intractable word vomit whenever they call. And you’re always wondering what they say about you to their co-w...
Short story writer and novelist Dan Brotzel dishes out 15 tips on how to use humor in fiction writing. Photo by Braydon Anderson on Unsplash It’s amazing how often you hear aspiring writers say: ‘I can’t write humor. I’m not funny.â...
Job hunting is hard! Whether you finished your degree or are looking for the perfect summer internship, finding the ideal position can take longer than expected. I mean, MUCH longer. Even if you think you have the skills and experience r...