Find Your Match, Older Writer: The Secrets of Publishing Panel
Susan Shapiro's Secrets of Publishing panel offers experiences of and useful advice from authors who debuted in their 60s.
The red sports car -- an emblem of the Midlife Crisis.
Stepping Out
Plans to step out from my massive self-publishing venture known as this blog and place some of my personal essays with paid outlets.
Yes, age discrimination is a thing.
Advising a 60-Year-Old Who Wants to Write
Advice for older people looking to write fiction as a second career and to publish their work through traditional publishers.
YA Trends and Boomlets
A discussion of several new YA novels set in Russia and Eastern Europe during and after the fall of Communism. Is this a new trend?
A New Agent!
Readers who are familiar with the publishing industry already know this, but many of my blog's readers are not familiar with the process of making books (making sausage is clean…
Going the Small Press Route: An Interview with Jamie Beth Cohen
Interview with debut small press author Jamie Beth Cohen on music, historical fiction, body image, and #metoo.
Against Monoculture
With the cancellation of two YA novels already this year, the PEN America annual meeting and panel discussion moderated by PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel on the topic "Writing Wrongs:…
A Review Audit
An audit of the books I reviewed for The Pirate Tree, according to diversity of characters and authors and size of publishers.
Going It Alone Together: The Authors’ Collective
A discussion of an old publishing model that is being revived as an alternative to traditional publishing and going it alone.
Celebrating a Launch and an Anniversary
On attending the launch of the anthology We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, an essential book for our time.