Author Interviews (9)

We met Patricia Spears Jones at Rutgers Writers Conference and knew we had to share her wisdom with you. She talked with us about poetry, writing communities, and her advice for writers. Filmed at Rutgers Writers Conference 2019. RELATED VIDEOS NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza Author Waytu Moore on Publishing | When Art & Commerce Meet Author Brad Parks on Journalism, Literary Agents, and Publishing Award-Winning Thrillers Joshua Mohr on Writing and How to Publish a Book PATRICIA SPEARS JONES [...] more

We met up with our dear friend Grant Faulkner, executive director of National Novel Writing Month , at BookCon . Grant talks about fostering the right creative mindset, building a writing community, and his writing advice. Filmed at BookCon 2019. WHAT WE COVER 0:15 What is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? 2:14 NaNoWriMo success stories & NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza winners3:43 Opening up the publishing gates: NaNoWriMo crashes through the gatekeepers and encourages everyone to embrace their identity as a writer. 5:58 Writing advice: writing is about persistence and [...] more

Waytu Moore, author of SHE WOULD BE KING and founder of the nonprofit One Moore Book, shares the publication journey for her debut novel and reflects on art, writing craft, commerce, and more. Filmed at Succeed2gethers Montclair Literary Festival 2019. WHAT WE COVER 0:35 Writing a draft of SHE WOULD BE KING and exploring identity as an African in America and as an African-American2:19 Pressures writers put on themselves, writing craft, and not resenting your art3:26 Writing discipline and respecting your art4:01 Publishing industry trends4:23 Waytu Moore's next novel is about mermaids5:32 Publishing SHE [...] more

We sat down with award-winning thriller author Brad Parks atSucceed2gethers Montclair Literary Festival. We picked his brain about how being a journalist influenced his fiction writing, the mistakes he made on the path to publication, and how he found the right literary agent and set himself on the road to publishing success. Watch the video or read the transcript below. David: Hello. We're the Book Doctors. Brad: I'm not a Book Doctor. D: No. We're talking to Brad Parks, who just told us that he has all his own teeth, and I [...] more

Roxanna Elden is one of our favorite authors. We met her in a class atMiami Dade College where we were teaching. From the very first time she raised her hand and opened her mouth, we knew she was something special. One of the consistent things weve found in our years of teaching and doingPitchapaloozas is that teachers make the best public speakers. Anybody who can wrangle a class full of kids and live [...] more

The Book Doctors first met May Cobb at the 2011Texas Book Festival in a town that is one of our all-time favorites: Austin. For those of you who havent been, youre doing yourself a great disservice. Its one of the great book festivals, in one of the great cities in America. May was one of the brave souls who pitched her book to us in front of a packed house at our [...] more

We first met David Gilmore many years ago during a writing conference in Tucson, Arizona. He stood out among the other attendees in part because he was just so smart, funny. He had already done so much work as a writer, and he was a fantastic listener. When we saw that he had a new book out, [...] more

We were absolutely delighted when we got a request from editor extraordinaire Peter Ginna to write something for a new book he was putting together called What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing . Because Arielle is an agent and writer, and David is a writer and book doctor, we have a very different perspective than most people who make money editing books. We thoroughly enjoyed writing our piece, but it was much more fun reading some of the amazing pieces in this book. So now that What Editors Do is [...] more

We first metJane Friedman online, which is where she is a lot. And quite brilliantly, shes carved out a very cool corner of the publishing world by taking deep dives into analytics and numbers revolving around the Internet and books. We subsequently got to hang out with her in person recently at theErma Bombeck Writers Conference ? ? which is, in fact, one of the great writers conferences in America! She was a panelist on our [...] more