by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 28, 2011 | Living in Place
Shortly after Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, the publishing house was born: Publishers owned the presses, bought the rights to what they published, and established a network for marketing and distribution. Five hundred years later, digital...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 14, 2011 | Living in Place
Digital technology is revolutionizing how books are produced and delivered, and antiquated business models for acquiring and marketing books are leeching profits from booksellers. Together, the technological innovation and financial stagnation are changing the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 7, 2011 | Living in Place
I had three children in four years, so even though well-wishers assured me I’d be able to write while the kids slept, I confess to being a slacker: when my kids napped, so did I. But not writing made me even more desperate than not sleeping, so I signed up for a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 24, 2011 | Living in Place
Wendy recently posted advice about how a writer needs to stay fit to survive [Survival of the Fittest]. Well, I recently learned that a writer also needs to get dressed. I quit my day job in 2003, and have been writing blissfully at home ever since. It would be...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 3, 2011 | Living in Place
If you are like me and chose not to pursue an MFA because you think no one can really teach you to write, and that writing is something you have to learn for yourself, then Roger Rosenblatt’s Unless It Moves the Human Heart: the Craft and Art of Writing is for you....
