Over the last two decades, BookEnds Literary Agency founder and president Jessica Faust and her team have ushered a small army of talented authors to the bestsellers list. In addition to being a super agent, Faust is an accomplished writer herself, as well as a highly...
Peter Steiner has always found ways to tell stories. His first cartoons appeared in the New Yorker in 1979, and his 1993 “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon remains the most popular in the magazine’s history. He is also a...
It is no secret that we are living in challenging and often troubling times. But as some factions struggle to hold on to archaic ideals and longstanding hatreds, the larger world is increasingly leaning into the reality that cultural and intellectual diversity is a...
As noted here before, every professional editor has their own focus, their own style, and their own process for how they help writers take a lump of coal into a shiny diamond. This week, I sat down with the estimable Stuart Horwitz, the founder of Book Architecture,...
From our earliest years we are conditioned to trust authority figures like police, teachers and doctors. But what happens when those figures let us down by skipping out on their oath of service? As author Kate Recore can attest, the results can be life threatening. In...
