Mar
6
I’ve saved up so many links this week to share with you – I am not sure where to start. How about another list-y style post? Two Bookish Videos: 1. Come on All You Ghosts Matthew Zapruder reads poetry selections at LitQuake in San Francisco. 2. The identity of The Rumpus’ own Sugar of “Dear [...]
Sep
22
Bookish Folderol of The Amusing Type
September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
They say that busting cliche is one of the best tools for a writer. Here’s an example of it in real life: Authors reading aloud while on a zip line… Futhermore… David Wilk, the idea man behind such sites as our very own LiveWriters as well as Booktrix and Writerscast, recently interviewed the talented author [...]
Aug
24
The Writer in Politics
August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When it rains it pours! We’ve had so many fantastic guest posts recently. Thank you, thank you. And special thanks this week to Leora Skolkin-Smith for allowing us to post her wonderful piece from the Fiction Studio Books blog. Enjoy… The Writer In Politics by Leora Skolkin-Smith The question of “The Writer in Politics†is [...]
Aug
18
Where Is The Future? And Where Isn’t It?
August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The new world of publishing may mean doing some things differently, but it doesn’t mean throwing everything out that’s worked for so many years…
Aug
11
Crunching Books
August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Finally someone innovates the e-book publishing platform – BiblioCrunch.com.
Aug
5
Our friend David Wilk over at Bootktrix (“Every trick in the book!”) has a new blog post up about the end of Borders Books. He has kindly allowed Livewires to repost the piece here. Thank you David! For more breaking news on publishing and books please visit the Booktrix blog and the Booktrix website (creative [...]
Jul
11
Every once in a while we here at Livewires pose a question to an author. Our question for the summer is… How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view? We posed the question to author (and friend) Erica-Lyn Huberty. Erica-Lynn lives and writes on Long Island, and is the author [...]
Jun
27
Every once in a while we here at Livewires pose a question to an author. This week’s question is: How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view? We posed the question to author Josie Brown. Here is her answer: The distribution model for books — and who controls it — [...]
Apr
22
Across The Overgrown Garden Flutters The Shadow
April 22, 2011 | 3 Comments
The painful practice of dissecting the future.
Apr
27
A World I Never Made: Author James LePore
April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Welcome, James LePore, author of A World I Never Made. How did you begin writing? I took a creative writing class in college and wrote eight short stories. These are now fortunately lost to history, but that was my beginning. Did you intend to become an author? No, but I intended to try to write, [...]