Business cards for writers, Part III: Your business card in 5 easy steps

Before you spend your time and money on a business card, make sure it is something that you’ll use, and something that you want.

the Word of the Week: “palimpsest”

palimpsest, παλίμψηστος, n They had found their dead city brooding under its curse, and had read its carven latter days as we had done. They had tried to reach their living fellows in fabled depths of blackness they had never seen—and what had they found? All this flashed in unison through the thoughts of Danforth [...]

Contest: Eggling Mint Sweepstakes

In honor of the start of Spring this weekend, a fun, effortless contest.  POINTclickHOME (a website presented by Elle Decor and Metropolitan Home) is giving away 20 of these little mint plants, complete with the ceramic egg container.  Alright, it’s not a writing contest, but how cute is this going to look sitting on your desk [...]

Business cards for writers, Part II: Information to include

This is Part II of a three post series on business cards for writers. (Part I was about why writers should have business cards.) Part III will be posted next Thursday. My search for the perfect business card began last week. I found the design I liked and a price I could live with and [...]

Contest: The Baltimore Review Creative Nonfiction Competition

Baltimore is the home of great literature and classic writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick Douglass to H.L. Mencken. The Baltimore Review , Charm City’s premier literary journal, seeks to collect the voices of the great writers of today, from Baltimore and beyond. The Baltimore Review is a publication based out of, you guessed [...]

Business cards for writers Part I: Why writers need business cards

Last month I interviewed a few authors for an article. After the interviews, I sat down to write thank you cards, but I hit a snag. I wanted to include my contact information and didn’t want to scribble it on the cute cards I found. My solution? Business cards.

Authors behaving badly

Didn’t anyone ever teach you any manners? What kind of a horrible person are you? ~Dorothea Benton Frank, commenting on a negative review of her novel Return to Sullivan’s Island on Amazon’s discussion boards I want to thank the authors out there who wag their tongues unadvisedly. I want to thank, particularly, authors who waggle [...]

Call for Submission + Contest: Narrative

  Narrative is the leading online publisher of first-rank fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A nonprofit organization, Narrative is dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age by supporting the finest writing talent and encouraging readership around the world and across generations. Our online library of new literature by celebrated authors and by the [...]

Freelance Writers: Read The Well-Fed Writer

The Well-Fed Writer is a reference that will come in handy time and again, and if you incorporate Peter’s techniques into your freelance career I have no doubt you will achieve success.

Writer Unboxed is looking for contributors

The popular (and very helpful) genre fiction blog, Writer Unboxed, is looking for contributors.

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