Literary Agents on Barnes & Noble and the State of Publishing

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings

I think if Barnes & Noble folds, or something like that, it might be so devastating that we can’t get around it. If Barnes & Noble were to fold, what would happen to all of us? I mean, there’s no way that publishing could really continue. We’ve put too many eggs in one basket.
This was [...]

Tags: Anna Stein, Barnes & Noble, Jim Rutman, Keeper of Secrets...Translations of an Incident, literary agents, Maria Massie, Peter Steinberg, Poets and Writers Magazine, The House

Read more | Comments (0) | May 28, 2009

Literary Agents on Barnes & Noble and the State of Publishing

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings

I think if Barnes & Noble folds, or something like that, it might be so devastating that we can’t get around it. If Barnes & Noble were to fold, what would happen to all of us? I mean, there’s no way that publishing could really continue. We’ve put too many eggs in one basket.
This was [...]

Tags: Anna Stein, Barnes & Noble, Jim Rutman, Keeper of Secrets...Translations of an Incident, literary agents, Maria Massie, Peter Steinberg, Poets and Writers Magazine, The House

Read more | Comments (0) | May 28, 2009

Character Drives Plot: How?

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings

We’ve all heard as writers that character feeds, or drives plot. But how often does someone show us how this occurs?
As a psychotherapist, wife and mother of 3 along with being an author I’ve given a lot of thought to this.
Also my stories a heavily character driven.
I think an awful lot about my characters.
The character [...]

Tags: character, craft, fiction, Keeper of Secrets...Translations of an Incident, mother, novel, personality, plot, psychotherapist, stories, The House, wife, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | May 6, 2009

What I’m Reading…

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Musings

Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe.
Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed.
It was okay to be married back then. No one had to [...]

Tags: African American, Angels and Demons, Dan Brown, Deanna Raybourn, Goddard College, historical fiction, Lady Julia Grey, literary, marriage, MFA, movies, mystery, Nicholas Brisbane, protagonist, reading, screenwriters, screenwriting, Silent in the Grave, The House, Victorian novel, women's fiction, writing

Read more | Comments (2) | April 9, 2009