The Ups and Downs of Indy Publishing All this stuff keeps me up at night. Are our authors getting their writing done? Will they send their manuscripts to me in time? How much editing will they need? Are they all passed out drunk at the YMCA and unable to do anything for months? Now what […]

Writing Tip 101: Getting out of your comfort zone I’ve been awake for hours, curled on a chair in the living room, watching the Christmas tree lights blink and fade like sleepy eyes in a cartoon forest. It isn’t always easy to know where the insomnia comes from—could be any number of things at the […]

The Strand Magazine’s top 20 books of 2013 1) The Devil in Her Way by Bill Loehfelm (Sarah Crichton Books) 2) The Kill Room by JefferyDeaver (Grand Central)3) The Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart (Atria)4) White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central) 5) Twist by John Lutz (Kensington) 6) No Way Out […]