Introducing READING IS GOOD FOR YOU 2LP Merchandise

[trx_title type="4" font_size="32px" position="top"]Introducing READING IS GOOD FOR YOU 2LP Merchandise[/trx_title] Everyone likes to sell merchandise. Book publishers especially. But since it’s an ancillary business and small presses are strapped for time and manpower, it’s a business that’s often neglected. Also, how can you make a mug or t-shirt appealing enough so that people will [...]

Reintroducing phati’tude Literary Magazine

[trx_title font_size="32pt"]Reintroducing phati'tude Literary Magazine[/trx_title] I am pleased to announce or rather, reintroduce phati’tude Literary Magazine (PLM), which is available for sale exclusively at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. The magazine published ten issues from 1997 to 2012. If you are interested, you can learn more about the magazine’s history here. PLM is like an [...]

Reading is Dreaming With Our Eyes Open

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Reading is Dreaming With Our Eyes Open[/trx_title] Growing up, some of the best, well-traveled people I have known never stepped on a plane to go anywhere, but the way they talked about faraway places, you’d think they had a fully stamped passport. One of those people was my mother, who enjoyed [...]

Get Ready For National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Get Ready For National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)[/trx_title] National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an annual, Internet-based creative writing project that takes place between November 1 and November 30, where participants attempt to write a 50,000 word manuscript. Freelance writer Chris Baty started the project in July 1999 with 21 participants in [...]

2Leaf Press Books Are Now Available Through The University of Chicago Press

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]2Leaf Press Books Are Now Available Through The University of Chicago Press[/trx_title] The day has finally arrived! As of August 1, 2018 all 2Leaf Press backlist and forthcoming titles will be available for sale through The University of Chicago Press (UCP). 2Leaf Press is the first U.S. black/brown woman-led publisher to be [...]

Introducing a Post-Beat, Latino Moroccan Poet from the San Francisco Bay Area, Youssef Alaoui

I first heard Youssef Alaoui recite poetry from a DVD that filmmaker Vagabond produced and played for me, and I found his poetry well-written and very interesting. When I got to know Youssef better, I found him equally interesting, a Latino Moroccan poet who speaks three languages living in California. While he is well-known and well-respected in his local community, I never heard of him, but I wanted to know more about him and his work.

Preview of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN by Wendy Cheng

A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd’s first book, DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN, MEMORY AND MOURNING IN THE BLACK PACIFIC, in June 2016. In Dream of the Water Children, Fredrick Kakinami […]

Books kept me alive in prison

ERWIN JAMES || THE GUARDIAN || SEPT. 2015 The end of the ban on sending books to prisoners in the UK reminds me just how vital they were to my survival inside, and to the life I have lived since The official lifting on the ban on sending books to prisoners, which comes into effect […]

Deadlines Help Writers

TERRY WHALIN || THE WRITING LIFE || SEPT. 2015 I’ve always found a deadline helps me get into my chair and get my fingers moving on the keyboard toward the completion of a writing project. In the newspaper business, the deadlines come fast and furious. I would write a story in the morning and it […]

“Most contemporary literary fiction is terrible”

J. ROBERT LENNON | SALON.COM An acclaimed writer wants his students to read more new fiction. They shouldn’t. Most of it is really bad In a recent piece on the Review Review, Dan Chaon writes about the need for young writers of literary fiction to emulate their counterparts in music, and develop an obsessive interest […]

How to Succeed with Your Blogged Book or Booked Blog Project

JOEL FRIEDLANDER | THE BOOK DESIGNER As a blogger, you are uniquely suited to become an author. If you have a successful site, meaning one with a large and engaged readership, you have set up yourself to produce bestselling books. You can use your blog effectively to transform yourself from blogger to author. Either blog […]

Why Authors Must Report Their Activities

Terry Whalin | THE WRITING LIFE Recently one of my Morgan James authors contacted me and asked, “Is my book really inside any Barnes and Noble bookstores. It was a good question and I turned to a colleague to find the answer. I learned this particular book had been available to the brick and mortar […]

Writers to grow old with, from Murakami to Ishiguro

Clarissa Oon | THE STRAITS TIMES Haruki Murakami has been a companion to a writer from singlehood to motherhood In my 20s and reeling from a break-up, I read everything best-selling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami had written, drowning myself in his prose the way others might in bottles of whisky. I have never been a […]

Literary News: Elmore Leonard

The Library of America, a non-profit publisher has decided that Elmore Leonard deserves to sit on the shelf beside Herman Melville, Flannery O’Connor, Mark Twain and the rest.

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