Reading and Writing

Publishers and literary agents do not always know better. Here are some books / writers that almost did not become published: “Not only d...

"New writers tend to think that editing merely means a brief read through for typos and spelling errors. That is the very last thing to...

"The brains of writers aren’t filled with only yet-to-be-penned stories. They’re loaded with insecurities, doubts, and uncertainties. T...

"So Icelanders love books. And that love involves most of the population, according to Baldur Bjarnason, a researcher who has written o...

Two giant publishing conglomerates want to merge. What it means to readers, writers, and other insiders? "One single publishing house u...

''even lousy literature is written by outsiders'' or ''to linger round the bookstore alcove dedicated to how-to-writ...

"Literature has always been a catalyst through which humans can find humor, adventure, or an escape from their everyday. However, I wou...

"The academic novel is usually considered a quaint genre, depicting the insular world of academe and directed toward a coterie audience...

"why are prizes so mistrusted these days? There are many possible answers, but two make, out of this many, more sense. Prizes have beco...

"Political correctness is now about to affect the behaviour of writers, with the American arm of HarperCollins introducing a "mora...

"How does one keep on writing knowing that you might never reach the level of the great writers? You hope that your next work will take...

"Nowadays when a writer or illustrator wants to submit something to a publisher, he or she usually will use the U.S. mail or another de...

"... because you think if you own publishing you can control what’s printed, what’s written, what’s read? Well, lotsa luck, sir. It’s a...

Embarrassed of your freshly printed novel being full of typos? Not your fault: "Every time you type an email or a document, errors are ...

"The top five, as portrayed in the updated “Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry” shows, at the top, a bunch of old champions in t...

Just as their books, writers too are only products to be traded and monetized upon: "Consumers and publishers are coming to rely on bra...

"Publishers confess they’ve goofed. Here’s why: Book publishers have been very slow to realize this but gradually began to admit that t...

Margaret Atwood did it. Edgar Rice Burrows did it. Willa Cather did it. Joseph Conrad did it. Alexandre Dumas did it. T. S. Eliot did it. Na...

"In his forthcoming book [...] the American author Robert Levine has an excellent chapter on publishing in which he interrogates the fo...

Writing books is a job, not unlike that of a worker on a  manufacturing line, where the publishing model forces one to churn out books as ma...