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Opening the Doors: The Crossroads Commons
TL;DRToday we open the doors. Crossroads Publishing Group—a hybrid publisher of serious nonfiction in Chattanooga—announces the Crossroads Commons, o…
2 months, 1 week ago
Weekend Edition: What Have You Ever Gained from Witholding?
This is one of the slower Saturday episodes—no announcements, no news. Just a piece of the book I’m writing, read and thought through out loud.
It sta…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Questions a Serious Editor Asks of a Manuscript
Monday’s episode last week was about green-lighting yourself, refusing to wait for institutions to validate your work. Today we go one layer deeper. …
2 months, 1 week ago
The AI Conversation Just Shifted. Here's a Short Survey of Different Approaches.
WHAT’S EMERGING AND WHAT IT MEANS
The question is shifting from “should writers use AI” to “what kind of writing is worth doing.” Tim Moon argues the …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Weekend Reflection: Wanting Everything and Becoming Nobody
In Dante’s Inferno, the lustful are not burned. They are swept, a great relentless wind moves them endlessly, helplessly, no footing, no direction, j…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Hybrid Publishing Is Having a Moment
Topics covered:
A field report from week one of Crossroads Publishing Group—what’s coming in the door, what’s surprising, what’s confirming.
What a hyb…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
On Green-Lighting Yourself
Brooke Warner, the founder of She Writes Press, gave a TED talk in 2017 called “Green-Lighting Yourself” that I have been thinking about for years. T…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Wrestling with the Self
When I was seventeen, I drove my parents’ conversion van home from a party with a six-pack in my system and a freshly-dented bumper on a stranger’s p…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Andrew Najberg + The Working Publisher News Digest
This week, two things in one episode.
I sit down with Andrew Najberg, novelist, poet, editor at Symposium Magazine, co-owner and co-editor-in-chief of…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Publishing as a Creative Act and Why Crossroads Opens Today
In 1917, Virginia and Leonard Woolf set up Hogarth Press in their dining room with about forty pounds of operating capital. Five years later, Sylvia …
2 months, 4 weeks ago