by Joel Friedlander | Dec 2, 2013 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
In yesterday’s New York Times there was an opinion piece by Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Here’s a quote: “Even highly gifted and relatively successful writers, artists and musicians generally are not able...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 19, 2013 | Writing
I was shocked to receive this note from my colleague April Hamilton: “Last week, Publetariat was named one of Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Sites For Writers for the fourth year in a row, and this year it was also singled out as one of the “Best...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 29, 2012 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
There’s been a lot of talk about paid book reviews since the New York Times ran an article by David Streitfeld this weekend about Todd Rutherford (a.k.a. “The Publishing Guru”) and the business he started selling reviews to authors. When he got...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 20, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Author Henning Mankell, writing in the New York Times last year related how he came to live much of the time in Mozambique. Listening to old men sitting on a bench talk, he speculates: It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 10, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Although I had a Twitter account early in 2009, I didn’t really start using the service until the end of the year. But when I started reading Tweets and interacting with people on the service, I had an immediate attraction to it, and the amazing ways people...
