Why Authors Go Wrong, and Other Explanations

Perhaps the reader is grumbling, in fact, we seem to hear murmurs. What has all this about the genesis and nature of good reporters to do with the publication of new books? Why,...

Mr. BOYNTON: Just as I feared. My dear fellow, while we should like to be helpful and will endeavor to give you advice to that end it must be done unobtrusively ... current revi...

The subject of _Why Authors Go Wrong_ is one to answering which a book might adequately be devoted and perhaps we shall write a book about it one of these days, but not now. Whe...

For He made the world and all that is in it. And He made it with a moral end in view, as we most of us believe. But not the wisest of us pretends that that moral object is clear...

It is not absolutely indispensable to select the subject of a novel before beginning to write it. Many authors prefer to write a third or a half of the novel before definitely c...

No! Two books are most often and emphatically _not_ the same article. Mr. Scott is wholly right when he points out every book should have advertising, or other attention, peculi...

The second reason was allied to the first; the story would “set every reader thinking how _he_ would spend the money.” And the third: it was a Cinderella story, giving the reade...

A section will most certainly require, to run it, a man who can tell a good review (another word-survival) and who can get good reviewers. It will require a man, or woman, with...

By “best seller” we may mean one of several things. Dr. Emmett Holt’s _Care and Feeding of Children_, of which the fifty-eighth edition was printed in the spring of 1919, is one...

The book reporter who had any sense of news values grasped this immediately. Books that a month earlier would have been worth 1,000 to 1,500 word articles were worth a few lines...

Dare to be a Daniel Carson Goodman. Write That Novel. Don’t procrastinate, don’t temporize. Do It Now, reserving all rights of translation of words into action in all countries,...