First, thanks so much to all of you who read/took/RT’d/linked to/commented on the Dave Wallace grammar challenge. I wanted to pay a small, quiet tribute to someone who did a great lot for me, and I am floored by the response. I’m beginning to feel like a broken record in the comments sections, though, as [...]

In an ongoing effort to build community among readers, writers, and publishing types, we are introducing the mediabistro.com book club--a series of parties where authors can show off their books.

At these new events, four authors will mingle and share drinks with mediabistro.com readers...

The website paidContent reported that a number of print giants will combine to form a "magazine consortium," a move that could shape the future of digital publishing. According to paidContent, it "will be announced early next week with News Corp joining Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst and Time Inc...

Harvey Sid Fisher is playing the Jewelbox Theater tonight. Kills me that I already have plans. Harvey Sid Fisher is better than 90% of American fiction. (If you are from elsewhere in Washington state or Oregon, there is probably still time to get on the road for this show.)

A community-oriented writing site with a shoe-string budget counted 10,000 authors today, doubling in size in six months.

Protagonize is a site where members create Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style fiction and build interactive stories. Earlier this year, it was one of the five finalists...

From Machine Project: Echo Park Medicinal Forage with Nance Klehm Wednesday, Dec 9th, 2009 7-8:30pm Cost: $15/person An after dark exploration of the sidewalk cracks around Machine Project for local medicinal plants, led by Nance Klehm. Get ready for the long winter dry, cold haul with simple...

I like Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz so much that every day this week, I’ll be posting excerpts from a really long interview between Cristin and I about writing, New York and her forthcoming book Everything is Everything which will be released in January 2010 by Write Bloody Press. In today’s final excerpt, Cristin talks about what [...]

In a unanimous vote this week, the Board of Mystery Writers of America (MWA) voted to cut Harlequin and all of its imprints from the organization's influential Approved Publishers list.

Harlequin had drawn criticism for its recently launched self-publishing arm. The MWA rules state that...

Richard Sarnoff, the president of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and a key figure in the negotiation of the Google Book settlement, has been named Person of the Year by Publishers Weekly.

According to his company profile, Sarnoff has managed offices in US...