Pen on Fire
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettMostly about writing and the business of writing but sometimes about other things that relate.
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Estelle Erasmus, author of WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED
Estelle Erasmus is a 2025 TEDx Speaker, an award-winning writing professor at New York University, and the author of Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published, named a “Best Book for Writers” by...
T.C. Boyle, author of NO WAY HOME
T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of thirty books of fiction, including, most recently, The Harder They Come (2015), The Terranauts (2016), The Relive Box (2017), Outside Looking In(2019), Talk To Me (2021) and I Walk Between the Raindrops...
Dylan Landis, author of LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE DESIRES
Dylan Landis is the author of three works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle, set in 1970s Greenwich Village: List of All Possible Desires, a novel in stories; the novel Rainey Royal, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; and the novel in sto...
Three books every writer needs
You see this with new—and older—writers’ work: wrong formatting, overuse of adverbs, commas in the wrong place, wrong punctuation of dialogue tags, sentences that need help with rhythm, etcetera etcetera etcetera.
There are so many good bo...
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of LAKE EFFECT
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling novels The Nest (named a best book of the year by People, the Washington Post, and NPR) and Good Company (a Read with Jenna selection). She has been a guest on...
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Books: Palm Springs Noir and Pen on Fire, a L.A. Times bestseller. Stories in Kelp Journal (Pushcart-nominated), Coolest American Stories, Rock in a Hard Place. Teaches here and there, including Gotham Writers Workshop. Co-host of Writers on Writing.
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