From the Glass Ceiling – Through the Looking Glass! The Red Queen Effect Strikes Again!
By Pamela Ebel “Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you…
Business of Writing
Author’s Corner
By Ed Mickolus This article originally appeared in Mensana, the newsletter of the North East Florida Chapter of Mensa. Why are you considering writing? As the designated Smartest Person in…
Writers Need Writers
by Kathleen Marple Kalb One of the best investments you can make in your career is dues for professional groups. Which specific group depends on your genre, but every writer…
Coloring Outside the Lines:
Depression, the Value of Art, the Responsibility of the Artist to Society, and the Responsibility of Society to the Artist by Eric Schumacher, reprinted with permission, FlapperPress.com I’ve had…
Are Editors Professionals?
by Arthur Vidro Back in my newspaper days, we often worked late to complete an issue before it got shipped (by car) to the printer. We didn’t receive overtime. The…
Removing the Fat: Meeting Word Limits
by Arthur Vidro, from the Summer 2017 issue of Calliope, reprinted with permission. In the 1980s, I was fortunate to work as part of the copy-editing team at a national…
Don’t know how to format a manuscript?
Tips from Michael Bracken, an editor mentioned in The October Publishing Game William Shunn offers two samples: the “modern” version and the “classic.” Note that Shunn didn’t create this out…
So You Wrote the Book, Now What?
by Kathleen Marple Kalb, reprinted with permission Sooner or later, you’re going to get an online assault. It may come as a one-star review from someone who informs you that…
Writers Who Lunch? Not!
by Pamela Ebel “People should be interested in books, not their authors!”—Agatha Christie In August of last year, I was one of five speakers, one man and four women, on…
Don’t Say It Twice, Don’t Say It Twice
by Arthur Vidro, from the Winter 2023 issue of Calliope, reprinted with permission. As a child I attended a free summertime performance at an outdoor public skating rink of You’re…