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Writers don't turn off their writing skills, so the way you've been writing your posts here is a bad sign for your chances of getting published. Also, if a book has already been published that has the same idea as your book, then publishers won't publish your book because it's already been...

In the Writers Market book I recommended, some agents and publishers state "No simultaneous submissions," or "Simultaneous submissions ok." Follow what they say. Here's how: Collect all the likely agents for the type of work you’re pitching. Rank them by how good a match they are, how...

The production was excellent, the castle was vastly bigger than ever, and the scene in which was beautifully done. But I'm surprised you think it was faithful to the book. .

Asimov himself was especially pleased with this book. He liked the combination of sf and mystery that he felt he achieved. He was also agoraphobic. So the intensely packed, urban world that was essentially all indoors wasn't necessarily a dystopia to him.

What I meant by publishers' guidelines online was the submission guidelines that some publishers post on their individual websites. I didn't mean one centralized site, as nice as that would be.

Novel & Short Story Writer's Market. It's a book. Get the latest edition--an old edition from the library won't do.

The days of slight books are long gone. Maybe a teen romance or something, but that's about it. 80-100,000 words is expected. 60,000 maybe, but it would have to have something that would really call attention to it. Some young adult novels might still be 50-70,000, but they're getting longer...

Brave New World. The Telling, by LeGuin.

I work in public relations at the Library of Congress. My job is 19% public relations, 1% librarian, 80% institutional politics.

Your questions are pretty broad. They could fill a book. And you're in luck! On Writing by Stephen King.

Never mind the legalities--I'm just very taken with the name.

Bartleby's window has no view except the neighborning building's wall. I felt that this was a symbol for Wall Street. Melville had the prospect of working on Wall Street, but he dreaded the idea. I took the story to be that being blocked by that wall crushes Bartleby, and this reflected...

This is the flaw in your question. Most of us do both.

That particular Border's is in the K-Street lobbying district, which is deserted at night. His publicist didn't help him much by booking him there at that time. At lunchtime, he would have had a crowd. On the other hand, that crowd would have been hostile. There wouldn't have been any...

Aww, thank you. That's very sweet. My birthday was pleasant, but my reputation must be slipping: none of my presents were books!

All of my fiction ideas come from my dreams. I have vivid, exciting, hilarious dreams and I wake up actually saying out loud "What a great idea for a story!" Then as I start to look at it and try to write it down and so forth it turns out to be incoherent and, well, too dream-like. So I have...

Yep--used bookstores more than ever, and they have a finer selection than before, since people are selling off their books.

Heh--they expanded the display after I posted that.

They left out asbestos. My grandfather had a copy. He always believed it was safe to handle. Now an uncle has it, but he keeps it sealed up. In fact, he doesn't even tell people about it, because the first thing they always do is ask to touch it.

LOL. Is Shel Silverstein's book Falling Up especially popular in Australia?