Red Room Where the Writers Are

Well, I am new here and don't really know anyone, but I wanted to share some good news! 8D

There have been a spate of articles of late regarding the grim future of publishing, everyone in the biz fretting about the big changes that lie ahead.

An editor at a  major publisher in the US responded favourably to my email proposal. He requested the manuscript and had it for seven months.

The wonderful Belle Yang has asked for some specifics about the kinds of editorial comments good editors have made on my poetry.

You thought I was talking about the rained-out picnic food? No-- I meant the fragments of poems and stories that wind up on the cutting room floor. What do you do with yours?

I just finished a session with my editor on "Prisoner's Dilemma." He is very logical, and I am not. He reordered two pieces to highlight the thematic counterpoint, and cut a phrase in a

I'm a slow writer. Poems enter at will; the chapters of the memoir and the novel flow slow blood through my arms.

Mystery Writers of America is offering their members who wish to attend the 2008 Backspace Writers Conference a $50 discount.

It drives me absolute batshit.