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What are publishers looking for in a manuscript? Here, Karetta Hubbard and Molly Best Tinsley, co-founders of Fuze Publishing, share their tips for aspiring authors.
A popular program brings bestselling authors and renowned poets to one of Maryland's largest cities.
Historical fiction is flourishing, and its advantages are many. For readers, it combines the familiar with the unknown, as novelists imagine the motivations and thoughts of historical figures. For writers, it provides grounding. Certain characters are already known and even defined. Better yet, the real world produces the most improbable characters. What fiction writer would dare create a character so complex and powerful as Abraham Lincoln? Yet historical fiction comes in many flavors. Here, for starters, are eight:
When is it OK to quit a book?
In honor of the literary game the late Christopher Hitchens used to play with his friend Salman Rushdie, “Titles That Didn’t Quite Make It,” here are some well-known book names that seem, um, less compelling with just one synonym swapped out.
It might feel like winter will never end, but publishers are already shipping out their spring/early summer biographies (normally, the heftiest bios are launched in the fall). And while this year’s release selection isn’t as robust as in the past, there’s still plenty to attract the attention of readers. Here’s a baker’s dozen of new biographies bound to get noticed.
