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Writer's Blog | Search this Site | Subscribe **Self-publishing Section Don't miss our Self-publishing resource. With articles, features and links, this section will help you find out the information you need to self-publish. We've also got an entire section on book promotion to help you get the word out about your new book. Let Us Publish Your Book! Self publish your work with Instantpublisher.com! Our quick, online book publishing service allows you to have your books in as few as 7 to 10 days. We offer affordable prices, professional color printing and various binding options. Our excellent customer service and step-by-step instructions make self publishing your book simple and easy. Visit Instantpublisher.com and get started today! The Atlantic Launches New Line of Ebooks The Atlantic has launched a new line of ebooks, called The Atlantic Books. Paidcontent reports that it will include long-form pieces between 10,000 and 30,000 words. The Atlantic president M. Scott Havens said in a statement, "The launch of The Atlantic Books reflects our commitment to innovation in publishing in the service of great journalism and storytelling." The first ebook being published is Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul by Jonathan Rauch. This ebook is being sold on Amazon.com as a Kindle Single. Atlantic also recently announced a partnership with Longreads. Photo: The Atlantic Books Posted on May 5, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet Your Ad Could Be Here! Get your message out with a text advertorial. Text Advertorials consist of 50 words of text, a graphic and link to your website. Click here to request our rate card! Harper Lee Suing Literary Agent for Stealing To Kill a Mockingbird Copyright Harper Lee is suing her literary agent for fraudulently inducing her into signing away her copyright to her iconic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The BBC reports that in the lawsuit Lee, 87, alleges that Samuel Pinkus tricked her into signing a document that that transferred her copyright to him. Lee says he took advantage of her failing eyesight and hearing and duped her into signing the transfer papers, which she never intended to do. Samuel Pinkus is the son in law of Lee's longtime agent, Eugene Winick. In 2002, Winick became ill and Pinkus transferred several clients to his own firm. The lawsuit says Pinkus fraudulently transferred the rights to the income from the book to himself. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Manhattan and is sure to cause major repercussions. Lee also alleges in the lawsuit that Pinkus has ignored all the requests for licensing rights for films and other projects, has refused request to license the books in digital format for ebooks, and that he totally ignored requests to cooperate for celebrations of the books' 50th anniversary. Lee is asking that her copyright be returned to her, that Pinkus pay back any commissions he earned on the book since 2007 and that Pinkus pay unspecified damages. If these allegations are true, Pinkus has committed a very serious crime. Posted on May 4, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet How To Make It As A Songwriter Mary Dawson's book, How to Get Somewhere in the Music Business from Nowhere with Nothing, gives you the inside scoop on how to make it in the music business as a songwriter. Mary teaches you all you need to know to make your songwriting dreams a reality. Click here to learn more. NASA Seeks Haikus to Send to Mars NASA will launch its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft in November. The spacecraft will measure the Martian magnetic field. It will also carry a DVD that contains three haikus. NASA wants the public to submit haikus for the spacecraft. The three haikus that go on the spacecraft will be determined by an online vote. The deadline for all submissions is July 1. The online public vote to determine the top three messages to be placed on the DVD will begin on July 15. The submissions page can be found here and the rules page can be found here. Here is an excerpt from the rules page: Messages must be in English and be in the form of a haiku poem. For the MAVEN contest, we are defining a haiku as a poem made of three lines; the first and last lines must have exactly five syllables each and the middle line must have exactly seven syllables. All messages must be original and not plagiarized in any way. An artist's conception of the MAVEN Mars orbiter that will be carrying short poetry while measuring the magnetic field on Mars is pictured above. Photo: NASA/GSFC Posted on May 3, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet Your Ad Could Be Here! Get your message out with a text advertorial. Text Advertorials consist of 50 words of text, a graphic and link to your website. Click here to request our rate card! Mitch Albom Signs Three Book Deal With HarperCollins Mitch Albom has signed a three book deal with Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. He was previously with Hyperion. Albom has published five consecutive number one New York Times bestsellers, so his move from Hyperion to HarperCollins is significant for both publishers. PublishersWeekly reports that Disney's Hyperion "may be moving further away from a standard frontlist publishing program." The deal was negotiated by SVP, Publisher Jonathan Burnham and SVP, Executive Editor, Karen Rinaldi with David Black from the David Black Agency. Albom's next novel, The First Phone Call from Heaven, will be published on 11-12-13. Albom said in a Facebook entry, "The First Phone Call From Heaven, my new novel, is out 11/12/13!! I wanted you, my friends and loyal readers, to hear it from me. Am breaking some new ground today! Will be publishing a brand new novel for the first time ever in November (usually September), first time ever in a consecutive year from last book (thank you, caffeine!) and first time ever with HarperCollins, my new publishing partner. It's a magical story about what happens when one little town, way up north, starts getting calls from souls in heaven. Who believes, who doesn't? Who flocks to join them? Who points fingers and calls them fools? And ultimately, what happens to the world when the biggest mystery of life seems suddenly solved? I'm having a great time writing it, and I am really happy to be sharing this with you. A cover will be revealed soon. Meanwhile, would love to hear your early thoughts. And don’t forget to let your fellow readers know. Thanks, as always, for being such a wonderful part of my world!" Posted on May 2, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet Australian's Vogel Literary Prize Unable to Find Winner The Vogel Literary Prize, which is run by The Australian, failed to find an entry good enough to be the winner this year. The annual prize usually awards $20,000 plus publication by Allen & Unwin. It is open to Australian writers under age 35. When prizes do not announce a winner at all it can be very upsetting to writers. However, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the judges believe picking a winner just for the sake of having one could ruin the integrity of the Vogel prize. The Herald reports that Geordie Williamson, a literary critic and one of the judges, told Fairfax Media, "If the award's going to count for anything there has to be times when [you don't award it]. There just wasn't the prize this year. If you're just spitting it out every year you're becoming part of the sausage factory." Williamson also said he hopes some writers will tweak their entries and resubmit them for a future Vogel prize. Williamson wrote an article about the decision not to award the prize here. Posted on May 1, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet

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