I promised over a month ago to write a guide to getting your work into print. Before we start, though, a disclaimer: If you are serious about starting a writing career, there are books and web sites galore that will give you more than enough information about the process of writing query letters, the right [...]

After finding PBS’s web site for Do You Speak American? I intended to have a long post on this topic, but I’ve been browsing through the material for days and have still found no end to it. It looks as if there was a documentary broadcast on TV back in 2005, and the producers organized [...]

A professor of mine e-mailed me her congratulations for a piece published in Newsday. I had no idea what she meant until I remembered an essay I’d submitted to them ages ago for their “New Voices” section. Apparently they liked it.