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Money and the Public Eye, However: Should They be Stranger Bedfellows?
What would I do without Twitter? I would hardly know what anybody ate for lunch, much less what the literary world is aggrieved about on any given day. When over the weekend I saw a bevy of literary...
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Submittable from the Editor’s Point of View
Submittable is a wonderful thing. If you’ve been a writer submitting creative work to literary journals or magazines in the past several years, you’ve probably used the service; you can hardly avoid...
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Go Set a Watchman, The Neon Bible, And One Reader’s Ethical Dilemma
Like a lot of other big-time book nerds, I was both surprised by and giddy over the recent news that Harper Lee would release a second novel this summer. While To Kill a Mockingbird was not necessarily...
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What I Wish I’d Known When I Published My First Book, Part 1
It’s spring (at least it feels like it in Seattle. Sorry, everybody who’s still buried under snow drifts) and that means it’s also publishing time for much of the small press world. Late next month and...
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What I Wish I’d Known When I Published My First Book, Part 2
As I promised last month, I’m back with part 2 of the list of things I wish I’d known before publishing my first book. But before I dive in, a little housekeeping: I’m moving this blog to a...
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Rounding it Up: AWP 2015
Like about 12,000 other writer-types, I’m back from a week in sunny (well, sort of sunny) Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I had the opportunity to spend some time in and around the creative writing...
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Finish That Manuscript
It’s finally summer, and with summer comes a cavalcade of writers making resolutions to finish their darned manuscripts. Maybe it’s partly because writers in academia finally have a little time away...
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Why I Can’t Wait for the 2015 PNWA Conference
Given how much I love doling out unsolicited advice, just imagine how pleased I am to hold forth when someone actually asks me to do so! I’m looking forward to this month’s Pacific Northwest Writers’...
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So, Who Are You?
(A pep talk for poets with books coming out this fall) Whenever I get to speak at writers’ conferences, no matter whether I’m talking about spondees and anapests or book blogging and social media, I...
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Risk and the Anti-Risk Poet
I’m a pretty cautious person by nature. I don’t drink unpasteurized juice. I save receipts. I really hate jaywalking. Basically, I’m not a leap-of-faith person. I’m a slow-shuffle-of-regularity kind of...
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