In case you missed it, here’s the video from last night’s Blydyn Square Book Club meeting. We discussed Stephen King’s 11/22/63, and the consensus seemed to be that it’s brilliant in audiobook format but makes a terrible novel for reading. What do you think? Join us next month on February 11 to discuss Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge. See…
*With a Little Help from Blydyn Square Books Let’s face it: Every year at this time, as the New Year approaches, we all come up with these grand ambitions for how we’re going to radically change our lives the moment the clock strikes midnight on January 1. And by February 1 (if not sooner),…
In case you missed it, here’s the video from our November 2020 Blydyn Square Book Club meeting last night! It was a short meeting because only a handful of us could make it and editor in chief Tara Tomczyk was a little under the weather, but we still got in some good book talk. 🙂…
In case you missed the news, Blydyn Square Books will be offering an in-depth writing webinar starting in January 2021 for writers of all levels. Our very own Everett De Morier (author of Thirty-three Cecils and The Invention of Everything) couldn’t wait to share the news. Check out the video he made! The webinar will be…
Read 20 books for 2020! Use our list if you like, or just read ANY 20 books. Post the titles here and be entered to win a prize when the challenge is over. We’ll announce the winner on New Year’s Day 2021. Have fun! Don’t forget: To be entered to win prizes for completing our annual…
Think Like an Editor: Tips for Getting Your Submission Noticed. When you’re a struggling writer, it’s common to develop almost a mythological view of editors. Because editors are the people who control the fate of your work, they may seem elusive, powerful, and difficult to relate to—almost a whole different species whose daily activities and…
Point of View: Which One Is for You? This week’s Ask the Editor question comes from a high school friend of mine—and someone who’s a novelist in her own right—Janet DiFabio Kath (hope I’m pronouncing that right, Janet!). Janet asks which is preferred: first-person point of view or third-person? On the off chance that anybody…
Ways to Get Published Whenever we do live events, I get asked the same question over and over again. People ask, “How much do you charge to publish a book?” Now, the fact that I hear this question so much tells me that most people—even the ones who hope to get published—don’t know a whole…
Welcome to our first segment of Ask the Editor. Shooting live video is about the last thing on Earth that a painfully shy person like me wants to do, so that should tell you how much I care about this stuff. Now, let’s hope I survive it. When people find out I’m an editor, they…