Novelists, Inc. Blog

HABITS OF THE PRODUCTIVE WRITER

Rebecca York — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:03:52 +0000

Recently I was asked to be guest author for a book-in-a-week challenge group. Of course, that got me thinking about my own writing method. I write two to four books a year, which means I have to keep working at a steady pace. Long ago, I used to write slowly, then spend a lot of time [...]

Where do you get a license to kill, part 2?

Patricia Rosemoor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:11 +0000

Well, okay, maybe not a license to kill. How about a passport? What does that have to do with writing? The passport is for a research trip to India, a setting I’m using in a new novel I’m developing, and I’ve never been to India. Whenever I am forced to deal with the government, I [...]

Conjuring

Charlotte Hubbard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:00:27 +0000

I’ve spent the last week staring into space a lot…hitting the pool nearly every day…cooking and baking like I haven’t enjoyed for weeks…actually READING A BOOK that is not my own! Playing music with lyrics–loudly! For all practical purposes, I haven’t written a word, except emails, for a week now. I have NOT stopped writing! Matter [...]

Meet Senior Editor Shauna Summers

BlogMistress — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:58 +0000

Welcome Shauna Summers, a Senior Editor at the Random House Publishing Group, where she edits and acquires all kind of commercial fiction, particularly romance and women’s fiction. Tell us a little about you and your publishing house. The Random House Publishing Group is a division of Random House Inc. and includes the following imprints: Bantam Books, Ballantine [...]

Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

Emilie Richards — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:21:18 +0000

Imagine my surprise when last year, I discovered that two of my Silhouette romances were being filmed for German television in New Zealand. Imagine my greater surprise when more were optioned and I was invited to see one of my first novels, Sweet Georgia Gal, being shot last month. Could I say “yes” fast enough? In [...]

The Community of Writers

Eileen Dreyer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:13:01 +0000

During the course of my writing career, I have gained something more important than awards, more faithful than editors, more vital than computers. I have built my community of writers. There are many things important to a writing career: talent, discipline, desire, stubbornness. We need an education in how to put our stories together, whether [...]

Agent Jennifer Lawler

Dara Girard — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:00:40 +0000

Tell us about your agency and yourself: The Salkind Agency (www.salkindagency.com) has been in business for about 15 years and has sold over 4,500 books. Neil Salkind, the head agent, is also a writer and has written more than 100 books. (He likes to keep busy.) The agency mostly focuses on non-fiction, especially textbooks and technical books. [...]

A Writer’s Work . . . Is Never Done

Patricia McLinn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:09:21 +0000

As a kid still aspiring to double digits, I asked Mom if I could have a clubhouse with my friends in our backyard. If we could fund it ourselves and get it built then, yes, she said, it could be in our backyard. Mom never thought we’d do it. Nobody thought we’d do it. We [...]

On Collaboration

Laura Resnick — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:59 +0000

Whether or not a writer enjoys collaborating on projects with other writers tends to be a very individual thing. I co-wrote three science fiction/fantasy short stories with my friend, romance writer Kathy Chwedyk. In each case, I accepted an invitation into a themed short story anthology, then realized I couldn’t think of a story. (I’ve been [...]

The Company of Writers

Elaine Isaak — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:48:28 +0000

The funny thing about being a multi-published author is that those who aspire to the title imagine that those of us already here have kind of got it all together. We know how to write books, how to sell them, how to hire and fire agents, how to work with editors, how to promote our [...]