Columbia Fiction Foundry Member Debra Green...
CFF member Debra Green Feldman’s The Convention of Wives, will be published in September 2022 by She Writes Press. Debra, whose pen name is Debra Green, has always been drawn...
Columbia Fiction Foundry Member Jeff Schnader...
My Pilgrimage to Publication of the novel, The Serpent Papers By Jeff Schnader This is an abridged version of the article published in Bookscover2cover. For the full, unabridged version, see:...
CFF Members Published in Fall 2021
DAY OF DAYS, Frank Napolitano (Toren James Publishing, Sept. 2021) THE SERPENT PAPERS, Jeff Schnader (The Permanent Press, Jan. 2022) POETRY MEMOIRS, Mary Freericks (Amazon) MY INDUSTRIOUS NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, Michael Vines (JewishFiction.net)...
An Interview with Julieta Almeida Rodrigues
September 25, 2020 This interview with Julieta Almeida Rodrigues was conducted by Catarina Abreu. Both are members of the Columbia Fiction Foundry. CA: Congratulations, Julieta, on publishing Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy,...
Three Online Resources For Fiction Writers
CFF member Edward Evans recommends this website featuring several authors' writing tips: Open Culture. The site's daily emails are frequently interesting too. CFF member Jennifer Kitses recommends this Literary Hub article...
2018 IPPY Gold Novelist—Amy Blumenfeld
On October 17 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., novelist Amy Blumenfeld will be featured in a guest speaker event to be held in the Shapiro Room of the Columbia...
Video of Greer Hendricks Interview
If you missed Ralph White's March 14, 2018 interview of author Greer Hendricks, here's the link to the video.
Jack Burger on How-To Books
The Long and the Short of How-To Books for the Writer - Three Examples Why read books about writing when you could actually be doing it? Maybe they have suggestions...
Two Paths to Publication
The Columbia Fiction Foundry presents authors Julia Kite and Jennifer Kitses discussing "Two Paths to Publication," November 14th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the King's College Room of the...
Query Shark - an excellent resource
Janet Reid is an agent who will mercilessly tear apart query letters. Right now there are 277 queries (many revised several times) with her brutal honesty about what works and...
How to build momentum in your...
Literary agent Jeff Kleinman, a recent guest at the Columbia Fiction Foundry, recommends these tips from writer Lee Child ("The Killing Floor", "The Enemy", the Jack Reacher series of thrillers)....
An evening with Folio Literary Agency
On May 18th, the Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted literary agents Erin Harris, Jeff Kleinman, and Dado Derviskadic, of Folio Literary Management, as part of the Foundry's "Distinguished Speakers" series. In a...