Ellis Avery Reviews Margaret Van Every...
Connection, Earthy and Ineffable Margaret Van Every HOLDING HANDS WITH A STRANGER Librophilia (Tallahassee): 2014 Reviewed by Ellis Avery Japanese innovators love to claim ancient precedent: when...
Natalie Harnett's "Totally Stellar" PR Agent,...
One of the most amazing things Natalie Harnett told the Columbia Fiction Foundry at her joint presentation with her literary agent, Kent Wolf, on September 6th was that she spent...
Character Sketch Template
Character Sketch Template Ralph White Best selling author, Columbia MFA, and Fiction Foundry guest, Jean Kwok was kind enough to share her character sketch with me. I modified it somewhat...
Broken Rooms
2011 Comes to Life in a Collection of Urban Haiku by Ellis Avery Review of Broken Rooms by poet Margaret Van Every There has been a recent trend in the US to...
What Do Computers Think of Hemingway?...
What do Computers think of Hemingway? Part 2 on Successful Literary Style Posted by David Gulley on Monday, August 11th 2014 Continuing my series on computer science and literary...
Whiteout, Ken Follett
Whiteout Ken Follett Let’s imagine Mr. Follett as an undergraduate student bringing the manuscript of Whiteout to a professor in his university’s writing program. “Loved your book, Ken.”...
Copyright Office FAQ
Copyright FAQs What is copyright? Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium...
Broken Rooms, by Ellis Avery
CFF guest speaker and Columbia writing instructor, Ellis Avery, has just published a book of haiku titled Broken Rooms. It is illustrated by sculptor, William Corwin. Any members of the...
The Nuts and Bolts of Copyediting...
The nuts and bolts of fiction copyediting Amy J. Schneider, owner of Featherschneider Editorial Services, has been a full-time freelance copyeditor and proofreader of fiction and nonfiction books since 1995. ...