Your smartphone helps you keep in touch with friends, tells you what song is playing on the radio, and navigates your car around town. But can it also help you write better—or even get you published? Sandra Beckwith, a “recovering publicist with more than 25 years of award-winning publicity experience,” recently listed “10 Best Apps for [...]
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Winston-Salem Hit with Poetry in Plain Sight
Friday, January 18, 2013
A collective of our friends in Winston-Salem have announced a new initiative: Poetry in Plain Sight. From the press release: Poetry in Plain Sight is an innovative program created to bring poetry to a wider audience and to increase readership of North Carolina poets. Each month through 2013, four different poems will be displayed on [...]
Give Away Free Books: Deadline is January 25
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
A reminder from Durham’s Regulator Bookshop: January 25 is the deadline to apply to be a World Book Night Giver. World Book Night is an international program that sends tens of thousands of people out on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth—April 23—to give away millions of books. The idea is to spread the joy of [...]
Friends Don’t Make Friends Read Their Novels
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Maybe you’ve been there: a friend of yours publishes a novel and gives you a copy. You’re thrilled for your friend, of course, but you also have a creeping sense of unease. Will the book be any good? Will you like it? Cripes, your too-read pile is big enough already…how will you fit it in? Any or [...]
NPR on Self-Publishing
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
In case you missed it, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition today included a story by Lynn Neary, posted on their website under the headline “Self-Publishing: No Longer Just a Vanity Project.” Which, y’know, most of us already knew, but it’s nice to get some NPR notice. The story does a good job of examining the [...]
Urgent Alert from the NC Center for Nonprofits
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
This morning I received the following message from the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits: “Protect the Work of Nonprofits – Make 2 Urgent Phone Calls Today News media are reporting that the President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are seriously considering imposing new limits on the charitable giving incentive as part of [...]
Steven Pressfield Follows the Money
Monday, December 17, 2012
Many of us became writers hoping to avoid math, and none of us need to feel sorry for E.L. James. Having said that, novelist Steven Pressfield makes a persuasive argument (with the math to back it up) about how much money E. L. James lost when she sold her Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy to [...]
Lit Map Book Club
Thursday, December 6, 2012
The North Carolina Literary Map is up and running and an easy (if informative) way to lose an entire afternoon. To help make sure that North Carolina’s finest writers and writing are not only mapped and celebrated, but also, y’know, read, the good folks behind the Lit Map have launched their own online book club. [...]
The NEA and NC
Monday, December 3, 2012
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the winners of its 2013 Grant Awards, and the Writingest State is well-represented. Ansel Elkins and Rachel Richardson, both of Greensboro, and David Rigsbee of Raleigh, who led the poetry workshop at the Network’s 2010 Squire Summer Writing Residency, received literature fellowships for poetry. In addition, the [...]
North Carolina Bookwatch this Friday
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
For 15 years, UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch has celebrated and supported our state’s writers.* This Friday, it’s our turn to support them. Tune in to UNC-TV this Friday, November 30, at 9:30 PM, to see host D. G. Martin* talk to Jill McCorkle* and Lee Smith* about their upcoming novels. Then call 1-800-984-9090 to make [...]