Broken launch party roundup

The launch party for Broken by Susan Jane Bigelow was a huge success! Thanks so much to Mike and all the crew at Modern Myths in Northampton, MA, for letting…

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NaNo is here again!

NaNoWriMo is once again upon us! And that means that for the month of November, more frenzied writing will happen than does for the rest of the year combined. Maybe…

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On short-run printing

This is something that's come up a few times in different contexts lately, and I thought I'd tackle the subject to clear up some misconceptions. Printing. Yes, it still happens.…

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Call for submissions – new anthology

Candlemark and Gleam is proud to announce an anthology of Alternate History: Substitution Cipher, a collection of tales of deceit, betrayal, and espionage, in worlds that could have been our…

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Publishing Options: Introduction

I had a very interesting conversation last night with an author who submitted a manuscript to Candlemark & Gleam. I was seriously impressed by his work, but it had some…

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Cheese or Fonts?

I freely admit to being a font nerd. I also freely admit that the reason I am not writing an involved and/or erudite blog post full of actual thought, content,…

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On Fixing Typos

HuffPo has an interesting feature on "the worst book typos of all time," which will make every editor and writer out there both guffaw and cringe. All of us have…

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Toeing the YA Line

YA is popular right now, there's no denying that. Most of the best-selling fiction, especially in genre, is identified as YA at the moment (well, whatever isn't ghostwritten by someone…

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