Monthly Archives: December 2009

Got questions about your booklife? Colleen Lindsay will answer them on Friday.

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I’m very pleased to announce that publishing consultant Colleen Lindsay has offered to answer questions from our readers. Colleen has worked as a publicist for Random House, as well as other publishers, and is a successful literary agent with Fine Print Literary Management. In addition, she runs a very popular blog called The Swivet, and contributed sections on marketing and publicity to Booklife‘s appendix.

To participate, return on Friday and leave a question in that day’s links post. See you then!

Booklife Essentials: Chasing Experience? An Interview with Nathan Ballingrud

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Nathan Ballingrud is a remarkable short fiction writer who has won the Shirley Jackson Award and had his work reprinted in year’s best anthologies. I first met him at the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1992. Pertinent to our discussion of “Chasing Experience,” I remember that the first day he locked himself in his dorm room and
typed furiously for a couple of hours. Suitably intimidated, we all thought Nathan was incredibly committed to his art. But, as he told me many years later, in fact he wasn’t typing anything: he was just nervous about meeting the other writers attending the workshop. Although Nathan talks about experience in the context of “genre” writers, I believe what he says is relevant to all writers.

(This week, by the way, I’m in the Carolinas speaking at Wofford College, Malaprops, and a Barnes & Noble in Burlington. Check out the full schedule for details.)

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