Aspiring fiction writers, mark your calendars! Several exciting events featuring novelists talking about craft are coming soon, and most are free. Jenny Offill, author of 2014's acclaimed Dept. of Speculation, will...

 From France: a new way of storytelling: https://www.rt.com/news/319609-grenoble-story-vending-machine         

This post contrasts revenue distributions for books, film, theater, and concerts. The focus is on investors and the predictability of overall, average results. http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/dag2170/2015/11/21/blockbuster-and-unicorn-the-flaw-of-averages/  

This new startup, Pronoun, is interesting in its own right, and Forbes' discussion of its strategy is also intriguing:   http://www.forbes.com/sites/billrosenblatt/2015/10/02/publishing-startup-looks-for-way-around-amazon/    

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2015/the-evolution-of-us-digital-innovation-in-publishing/

Friends, here is a post that will interest you. https://janefriedman.com/the-state-of-the-publishing-industry-in-5-charts/  

Defining Genre Beth Hill, author of The Magic of Fiction (available only as a $14 PDF download), has an informative two part post on The Editor's Blog titled Defining Genre, Part 1 and Part 2.  ...

PALO ALTO AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE! John Angell Grant (CC, ’68), a Bay Area theater critic and playwright, has written a new novel currently being serialized in the Palo Alto...

An Afternoon with Literary Agent, Miriam Goderich         June 6, 2015 Columbia Fiction Foundry Interviewer: Shanan Essick (SE) Transcriber: Ralph White (RW)    SE:      For those of you who don’t know...