I’m a writer, though as of yet unpublished. I’ve written stuff I’m deeply ashamed of (a novel almost 10 years back that was horrid), and I’ve written stuff I genuinely like. A few years ago I sent a ...

Today in publishing and literature: Penguin signs its first writer off their "electronic slush pile" Bookcountry.com, a strong review for Jodi Kantor's book The Obamas, nine Chinese authors are suing ...

As a former musician whose glory days are long gone, Ian Shadwell belongs to an entire generation of old rockers who feel a bit lost. ‘‘We all had moments of glory and it all kind of defined you for a ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Recently, fiction writer David Cameron decided to try a little experiment: I grabbed a New Yorker story off the web (no, it wasn ...

A new answer to the old problem of how to find the gems in the slush pile is emerging online. As Scott Pack, commercial director of The Friday Project, says: "Everybody knows there’s a lot of great ...

The query letter was written on pale pink stationery and dated Feb. 14, with a return address in Yonkers, N.Y. After describing her collection of love poems, the author wrote: “Many end their prayers ...

ScriptHop aims to get screenplays to the top of the pile at agencies and studios, and not tossed back onto the unwanted stack of unsolicited submissions. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Before a ...

In 1991, a book editor at Random House pulled from the heaps of unsolicited manuscripts a novel about a murder that roils a Baltimore suburb. Written by a first-time author and mother named Mary ...