The Author Tour

3324818011_c9fd2bd54bIt’s Thursday and Peter chats to Jonah Lehrer, author of the just-published The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind about the author’s life on the road – the contrast between the solitary writing process and the glare of the publicity circuit.  And reviews – how should we handle them?

In today’s Write Report, Donna reveals that authors who write for an adult audience often have bigger problems than they anticipate in crossing over to the juvenile / YA market.  So just keep off our turf, right?

In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she finds some snappy advice for new authors from young gun Stephen King, circa 1988.

Links: The Write ReportEverything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes, by Stephen King

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