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January 30, 2019

REVIEW: Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsediting / English grammar / language / non-fiction / writing6 Comments

Recommended Read

We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help. As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. He is beloved by ... more >

Samhain
June 23, 2016

Thursday News: Samhain stays open (for now), YouTuber books, Bravo! imprint, and Hisham Matar

JanetPublishing Newsbook imprints / digital publishing / Samhain-publishing / writing / YouTube5 Comments

Samhain tells its authors that the doors will stay open: Chris Brashear informed Samhain authors that expense cutting strategies are keeping the publisher afloat, and they hope to re-open submissions (internally at first) by fall. They’ve also enlisted a PR service to market and promote their titles, so hopefully they ... more >

Jane Austen Bank Note
August 6, 2015

Thursday News: Writers and community, DRM, color-coding books, and what would Pemberley cost today?

JanetPublishing NewsBooks / community / DRM / gaming / intellectual property / Pride-and-Prejudice / publishing / social media / writing4 Comments

An Introverted Writer’s Lament – Reading this article reminded me of a great conversation I had with friends lately about how much more engaged and vocal the community of Romance authors seems to be now than, say, five years ago. I suggested that perhaps self-publishing has allowed authors to talk ... more >

April 14, 2015

Tuesday News: The SFF and Speech Edition

JanetPublishing News"hard" SF / Free Speech / gender / harassment / hate speech / Hugos / online speech / SFF / stalking / writing10 Comments

To the Hard Members of the Truthy SF Club – I readily admit that I am an outsider to the SFF community, although I have read within the genre since graduate school. I have read many discussions of the difference between so-called “hard” and “soft” SF, but I especially enjoyed ... more >

February 3, 2015

Tuesday News: Olivier and Leigh’s love letters, from Wal-Mart to library, Superman’s new costume, and writing as a job

JanetPublishing Newsactors / Comics / love letters / public library / Superman / writing7 Comments

‘I woke raging with desire for you’, Laurence Olivier told Vivien Leigh in unseen letters – The letters between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are going public for the very first time, and I’m thinking this story will make you want to read more of them. It always amazes me ... more >

December 16, 2014

What does it mean to be a “good” reader?

JanetLetters of Opinioncritical discourse / genre critique / reading / tropes / writing13 Comments

Last weekend delivered a hat trick of essays on critical reading, two on KJ Charles’s m/m novel Think of England, and one on Deborah Fletcher Mello’s The Sweetest Thing, in which Liz McCausland also addresses the intertwined issues of “good writing” and “good reading.” More specifically, she argues, I don’t ... more >

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