News & Articles

WPN regularly publishes articles on a variety of topics of interest to our members and the publishing community. To find articles on specific topics, please use the drop down menus. We accept submissions from the community for publication. If you have an article, (limit 2,500 words), please send to editor@writersandpublishersnetwork.com .

Who’s Telling This Story? And Why?

By Shelly Lowenkopf Three bag ladies are standing in the parking lot of a Trader Joe’s market, a common-enough sight in many cities. Now, two men—Mac and Ben—push their shopping…

Monologues, Dialogue, and Characters

by Bobbie Christmas Q: I have written a novel that could be described as conversational style. There are large blocks of text in which one of my characters is telling…

Behind the Covers

by Bernadette Kazmarski Patricia Fry is writing so fast that I illustrated and designed two covers at almost the same time— PAWtners in Crime and PAWSitiviely Sinister (soon to be…

Dallas Woodburn's Exciting News

Dallas Woodburn has some exciting news to share. Six of her poems, exploring the juxtaposition between childhood and adulthood, were made into a song-cycle by composer Alex Marthaler and performed…

Bobbi Christmas Rereleases Write In Style

People have been bugging Bobbi Christmas for years to rerelease Write In Style, her triple-award-winning book on creative writing. It went out of print in 2004, and the rights reverted…

Busy Barbara (Bobbi) Florio Graham

This winter Barbara (Bobbi) Florio Graham was asked to help the SCRIBE webmaster refine information on their website. She’s been a columnist for their newsletter for many years and he…

LA Times Festival of Books Big Success

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was a big success for WPN. We had four authors in our booth each day talking to visitors and selling their books. Many…