While I was living in Los Angeles these past several years, I was lucky enough to meet Barbara Caplan-Bennett, a fellow member of the Independent Writers of Southern California. A novelist and trained action coach, Barbara is a person who helps writers redesign their approach to life so they can write. Here’s how she writes … Continue reading
About 10 years ago, I wrote this poem, which was distributed on a lovely poster illustrated with a picture of a rocking chair with wings on its back and a moon on its seat. The chair was poised on the roof of a house, amidst a block of other houses without winged rocking chairs atop … Continue reading
Continuing from last week’s article, which included resources for publishing markets as well as six stories from writers on how they got into print, this week we share six more stories by writers of essays, children’s books, short fiction, nonfiction books, magazine articles and radio commentary. These writers discuss the way they made connections with … Continue reading
To publish your work, you must consider many markets and match your material to them: literary small press publications, national large circulation publications, local newspapers, regional and national newspapers, radio, industry publications and online sites and publications. It is rare for a writer to start at the “top” with national publications before publishing locally and … Continue reading