REAL WRITER’S MARKET – First Library
Great news! REAL WRITERS MARKET is now in its first library. I lived at the library when I was a kid. I couldn’t afford the Writer’s Market book, so I would spend hours and hours every day at the reference center. Happy days. They still have the old writer’s market books there, as outdated as…
Autumn House Press Submissions
Autumn House Press USA – Novels, SS, Literary Fiction, General Non-fiction autumnhouse.org info@autumnhouse.org WINNER – AWP’s Small Press Publisher of the Year Award, 2024 Founded in 1998, Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned non-profit publisher based in Pittsburgh, PA, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry, prose and other fine literature. Autumn House…
Every Once In a While
Every Once In a While Every once in a while we all need to remind ourselves just how human we really are My friend J is pretty much the laid-back type He likes to remind himself how human he is by taking a long drive down the great river road My friend…
2026 PEN America Literary Awards
The 2026 Literary PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony will be held on March 31, 2026 at the Town Hall in New York City. PEN America is honored to announce the Finalists for the 2026 Literary Awards. The awards are judged by panels of esteemed authors, editors, translators, and critics. The 2026 Literary Awards will hand…
10 Biggest Bestsellers of 2024 (Hardcover Fiction)
The biggest hardcover fiction bestsellers of 2024 are dominated by Kristen Hannah’s The Women, Sarah J. Maas, and Rebecca Yarros, with high-volume sales in romance, fantasy, and thriller genres. Top titles include The Women (1.5M copies), A Court of Thorns and Roses (1.3M), and The Scarlet Shedder (1.25M). 1) The Women by Kristin Hannah –…
Sober Thinking
Once after going on a 9-day drinking binge I thought I needed to sober up. So I did. After just one day of sobriety, what I needed most was a drink. Being drunk must be better than being sober, I concluded. Everyone knows you make better decisions when you’re sober, than when you’re drunk.
Flashbytes on Forbes – William Duer and the Great Wall Street Crash of 1792
by Philip Loyd … (Blast from the Past) … That’s right, your beloved founder Philip Loyd is now doing his crazy Flashbytes thing on, of all places, Forbes. Philip on Forbes. And about whom? What? Hamilton? Franklin? Not hardly. How about William Duer? Huh? Exactly. William Duer and the great Wall Street crash of 1792.…
Death Before Pity
by Philip Loyd … When a woman is in love with you, I said, nothing can change her mind. But when she falls out of love, she would just as soon leave you bleeding in the middle of the road. Not my Betty Sue, he said. My Betty Sue would take pity on me. I…
The Night the Ghost Got In by James Thurber (My Life and Hard Times)
The Night the Ghost Got In by James Thurber is one of our favorite stories from the man who practically put the New Yorker on the map. That’s right, back then magazines like the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers were jam-packed with short stories. Today, as Vonnegut often said, you couldn’t even…
