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About Me

Writer's Digest is a magazine, a book imprint, a school, and a book club, among other things. The Writer’s Digest mission is to inform and inspire you as you seek to write and publish, and also to support a lively and thoughtful community of readers and writers. Visit us at writersdigest.com , or connect with our forum at writersdigest.com/forum . Also, check out our blogs:
Brian A. Klems "Questions & Quandaries"
writersdigest.com/qq
Maria Schneider "The Writer's Perspective"
www.writersdigest.com/writersperspective
Kevin Alexander "This Writer's Life"
www.writersdigest.com/writerslife
Chad Gervich "Script Notes"
www.writersdigest.com/scriptnotes
Robert Brewer and Nancy Breen "Poetic Asides"
www.writersdigest.com/poeticasides

My Interests

Writing, reading and connecting with all who see writing as a passion and lifestyle.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, agents, publishers, editors, journalists, aspiring writers, English majors, scriptwriters, folks who like writing for kids, teens considering a future in writing and all others who appreciate the written word and the power it holds.

Music:

Anything that inspires us to write.

Movies:

Stranger Than Fiction, Almost Famous, Adaptation, The Hours, Shakespeare In Love, Out of Africa, All the President's Men, Iris.

Television:

The Office.

Books:

A Few of Our Favorites:
Maria S.:
Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
Brian:
Hairstyles of the Damned, by Joe Meno
Kara:
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

My Blog

Short Short Story Competition Winner

Most days Robert Brandt, grand-prize winner of the 8th-Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition, isn't writing. Instead, he's cutting. Stitching. Watching. Evaluating. Waiting. Running. Sa...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:28:00 PST

The Conference Scene: Travel Writers

In the June issue of Writer's Digest, we highlight the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference hosted in Corte Madera, Calif., where you can mingle with the best travel writers in the b...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:52:00 PST

Moving with the Trends

Before Stephanie Kip Rostan was a literary agent at the Greenberg Literary Agency, where she's been since September 2001, she spent four years as an editor for The Bantam Dell Publishing Group. An avi...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Fri, 23 May 2008 11:22:00 PST

Literary Hot Spots: Boston

In the June issue of Writer's Digest, we offer up an essential guide to living the lit life in several U.S. cities. Boston may not have the same literary sway it held during the tenure of Ralph Waldo ...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:09:00 PST

The WD Interview: Sara Gruen

Fiction writer Sara Gruen delivered a phenomenal bestseller with Water for Elephants. In the June issue of Writer's Digest, we find out how her passion for animals led to her breakthrough success stor...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:54:00 PST

Welcome to the new WritersDigest.com!

This is the week we’ve all been waiting for: The brand new WritersDigest.com has arrived. Maria and I (and our supporting cast of new media developers) have spent months designing, programming a...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:19:00 PST

The Sentence Sleuth: In Search of Lost Readers

WD columnist Bonnie Trenga says bring back readers with sentences that are the perfect length:My dad has a memorable poster in his bathroom: a diagram of a ridiculously long sentence by Marcel Proust....
Posted by Writer's Digest on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:51:00 PST

Do Amazon Shorts Pay Off?

In the April issue of "Writer's Digest," novelist J.A. Konrath discusses the pros and cons of the Amazon Shorts program:If you've visited Amazon lately you may have noticed Amazon Shorts (amazon.com/s...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:08:00 PST

Finding the Right Editor

In the February issue of Writer's Digest, writer Mark Peters says searching for the right editor has some surprising similarities to online dating services. In fact, pitching an editor can be a lot li...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:49:00 PST

What is a Blog? by Brian A. Klems

Q: While I've read several sites referred to as "blogs," I'm not really sure what a blog is. What is a blog? Christopher B.A: From writers at award-winning newspapers, to magazine editors to your nei...
Posted by Writer's Digest on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:39:00 PST