The BookishNYC Blog

Early drafts of anything — novel, book proposal, screenplay, children’s book —a re rarely ready for the prime-time of literary agents’ or editors’ in-boxes. For that reason, it’s advisable to get feedback on your work, to vet it and revise it before you send it out into the world for potential representation by a literary agent or potential sale to a book ...

Happy birthday to Agatha Christie!

Dame Agatha Christie, known for her mystery novels and the now-iconic detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, enjoys ongoing status as the world's best-selling author — despite having passed away over 50 years ago. 

Christie's habits have much to teach writers about both the craft and the career of a successful wr...

Julia Child (August 15, 1912 - August 13, 2004) was a master of cookbook marketing and "offline" social media promotion. When I worked in-house for book publishers, I had the pleasure of working with Child herself and later on her biography (Appetite for Life by Noel Riley Fitch). 

Child, the author of the seminal cookbook, Mastering the Art of French ...

After a years of being in-house in the broad trade publishing business, I took a job focusing exclusively on cookbooks — after which then wrote / co-wrote a few of my own.

Which is why it was so fun to see two of my cookbook, cocktail and all-around heroes — Stanley Tucci and Stephen Colbert discussing how they found the task of writing and traditionally pu...