A few of my colleagues and I have begun a project in which we will thoroughly research the options that serious fiction writers have for getting their books to print. What is the future of publishing?

Yes, believe it or not, I do still read outside of contest submissions, manuscripts I am evaluating, and texts I am editing/promoting/creating. I read as we all do, for pleasure, to improve my own writing, and to inform myself.

This Rosenblat fiasco is still a story, but it is becoming less about the genre of memoir than about the character flaw of this one man.

While I generally find e-mail forwards irritating, redundant, occasionally insulting, and often totally fabricated,

Today my writer-buddy, Jen, asked me if I was scared of a blank page. I told her that I am scared of the pile of dishes that towers over the dishpan in my kitchen,