New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Thursday September 3, 2015
Quarterly online literary journal. Submit 1-3 poems, or fiction or creative nonfiction up to 5,000 words.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Tuesday September 1, 2015
Handles adult and young adult fiction.

Can authors compete with 'non-competes'?
thebookseller.com – Saturday August 29, 2015

No publisher would agree, at an author's request, to forgo publishing another author's book on a particular subject. So why should an author assume a similar obligation? But it happens all the time.

Rude awakening: three essential rules for writing good sex
theguardian.com – Friday August 28, 2015

Serious fiction should not ignore physical love, but it's hard to get right. Here are a few lessons I've learned.

Top Tips for "Aspiring" Writers
huffingtonpost.co.uk – Wednesday August 26, 2015

I'm often asked if I have any nuggets of wisdom for aspiring writers.
Being me; terrible at stringing sentences together verbally, and often angsty about my work, I tend to deflect, self-deprecatingly, and redirect the question back into the conversation.

A Book Well Worth the Wait
publishersweekly.com – Sunday August 23, 2015

An editor publishes a book by a writer whose work he fell in love with 20 years ago.

Revealed: Why the Dragon Tattoo girl is really a man (...and why Stieg Larsson wrote off Inspector Morse)
dailymail.co.uk – Sunday August 23, 2015

The heroine should act like a man while the hero should be a ‘bimbo' – and neither should ever behave like Inspector Morse.
These are the bizarre rules of crime writing, according to the stunningly successful author of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

ePublish and Be Damned!
huffingtonpost.com – Saturday August 22, 2015

There's an old cliché in the ink stained trade from which I hail, "Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
But in 2004, when I was young, dumb and full of cum, I paid no heed to caution or wisdom. I had a daredevil idea, for a non-fiction book about jails in the USA, and submitted the proposal to several literary agencies based out of London.

Making a living from writing, writing from making a living
theguardian.com – Thursday August 20, 2015

For authors from Ken Kesey to Nathan Filer and Christie Watson, conventional working life has provided a vital resource – and not only in getting the rent paid.

Authonomy writing community closed by HarperCollins
theguardian.com – Thursday August 20, 2015

Authors are mourning the closure of Authonomy, the online community for would-be writers set up by HarperCollins seven years ago as a way to source new talent.
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