Seeing your book on the silver screen: it’s a universal dream, one that nearly every novelist I’ve worked with has confided that they harbor. Barely a day goes by when an author does not ask me whether I have any Hollywood connections who could help them get a foot in the door. Sure, I have
“If you haven’t heard the buzz about a new weight-loss program called Bright Line Eating, you will soon”… So begins the cover story of Woman’s World’s July / August edition, which we’re so proud to say features Susan Peirce Thompson and her book Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free. The feature, titled
Deep down inside we writers know that those pie-in-the-sky dreams we all harbor of getting our books reviewed by the New York Times, or featured in Oprah Magazine or on NPR’s Fresh Air are, for the most part, just that: pie-in-the-sky-dreams. A few years back here on Writer Unboxed I gave a glimpse of why. But
It’s June! Time’s really flying over here at BookSavvy. With amazing new summer reads cropping up on our desks and equally stellar authors to work with, we’re swamped — happily reading, booking interviews and getting articles placed. Still, we can find a little time to brag! Here are some of our favorite author clips from
In a few weeks I’ll be leading a session with independent editor Nicola Kraus at Grub Street’s annual Muse and the Marketplace writers conference, on “Outsourcing for Writers.” When we first pitched the idea to Grub Street, the conference organizer confessed that the idea “freaked [him] out a bit.” After all, writing is such a solitary
Is it spring already? At BookSavvy, we had such a busy winter lining up press coverage for our authors that we were unable to make our last two news roundups! We’ve even added a new member to our team just to keep up with the staggering volume of author coverage! In March alone, our authors