Interesting article by Russell Smith in today’s Globe & Mail about a new, sooper-seekrit publishing meme: “big”.
I heard it the most, as I am guessing most authors do, in the course of receiving rejections for a book. From publishers in Canada, the United States and Britain, I heard great compliments – it’s clever, [...]

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A very unique and rare opportunity has cropped up on the internet. Alan Rinzler, lifelong editor, is offering to receive book proposals and critique your work for free!
You’re all invited to send in an abbreviated 15-page proposal, fiction or non-fiction, which should include the following elements:
1.  “Hook” or overview (one page)
2.  Chapter outline (three pages)
3.  [...]

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Blogging is what I am most used to. You write a post, press a button, and you’re done. It is instant gratification – a big thing to my generation!
Traditional book publishing – or dead tree publishing – is anything but instantaneous. You write a query. Send it off. Get a little feed back. Revise, [...]

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Or so it seemed in 1996 when I bought the cute little turquoise coupe that I used to bomb around the streets of Montreal in.
And now, a week after launching Girl on the Write Freelancing, suddenly writers are peeking out of the woodwork. I get an email from old pal Michael, who I hear from [...]

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