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What you say after making love to your wife can crash-and-burn a marriage—or save it. Count what I said last night as a crash-and-burn. We had just made love for the first time in a long time. We were just rolling around our bedroom, laughing like we had the whole world to roll around on. […]
I remember seeing the notice in Publisher’s Weekly. A senior editor I knew at Hyperion had gone to work as a freelance editor, and her email address followed to get in contact with her. Poor woman, I thought, she’ll never get any work. No publisher I had ever worked for had a budget to assign out developmental […]
https://www.charlottelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cl_wordlogo_whitespace1-300x63.png00Betsy Thorpehttps://www.charlottelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cl_wordlogo_whitespace1-300x63.pngBetsy Thorpe2018-02-01 13:06:532018-02-01 13:13:19Leaving Publishing for a Solo Career: One Woman’s Story
If you’re an avid reader like me, there’s nothing worse than finding out one of your favorite authors has visited recently, but you missed them. Maybe their appearance wasn’t well advertised, or you were busy and didn’t have a chance to read any of the fifteen information streams where it was mentioned, or your best […]
https://www.charlottelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cl_wordlogo_whitespace1-300x63.png00Lisa Zerklehttps://www.charlottelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cl_wordlogo_whitespace1-300x63.pngLisa Zerkle2018-01-29 14:18:262018-01-29 14:22:32In the Litmosphere: What’s Coming Up for Readers & Writers
Unless the two sides of your brain are evenly divided—what writer’s is?—you probably don’t enjoy the heavily weighted left-side chore of submitting your work to magazines. I am left-handed, so I’m even less linear than most. But believe me when I tell you that I have learned to enjoy the submission process. Why? Because I […]
https://www.charlottelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cl_wordlogo_whitespace1-300x63.png00Dannye Romine Powellhttps://www.charlottelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cl_wordlogo_whitespace1-300x63.pngDannye Romine Powell2018-01-22 12:03:512018-01-22 12:21:25The Art of Submitting
Terrestrial, Baby
/in Blog, Fiction /by Charles IsraelWhat you say after making love to your wife can crash-and-burn a marriage—or save it. Count what I said last night as a crash-and-burn. We had just made love for the first time in a long time. We were just rolling around our bedroom, laughing like we had the whole world to roll around on. […]
Leaving Publishing for a Solo Career: One Woman’s Story
/in Blog /by Betsy ThorpeI remember seeing the notice in Publisher’s Weekly. A senior editor I knew at Hyperion had gone to work as a freelance editor, and her email address followed to get in contact with her. Poor woman, I thought, she’ll never get any work. No publisher I had ever worked for had a budget to assign out developmental […]
In the Litmosphere: What’s Coming Up for Readers & Writers
/in Blog /by Lisa ZerkleIf you’re an avid reader like me, there’s nothing worse than finding out one of your favorite authors has visited recently, but you missed them. Maybe their appearance wasn’t well advertised, or you were busy and didn’t have a chance to read any of the fifteen information streams where it was mentioned, or your best […]
The Art of Submitting
/in Blog, Craft /by Dannye Romine PowellUnless the two sides of your brain are evenly divided—what writer’s is?—you probably don’t enjoy the heavily weighted left-side chore of submitting your work to magazines. I am left-handed, so I’m even less linear than most. But believe me when I tell you that I have learned to enjoy the submission process. Why? Because I […]