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Texas Monthly
Before he ever considered traveling to Syria, before he saw his byline in the Washington Post, and before he made worldwide news, Austin Tice had a revelation in the desert. At 29, he had insatiable curiosity and a surfeit of charisma, and though he generally wasn’t one to entertain visions, he’d been thinking a lot about his future. It was 2011, and he was three months into his deployment at Camp Leatherneck, in southern Afghanistan, with his fellow Marines. Despite being in a war zone, he was restless.
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ASJA
 ASJA and the other sponsors of Banned Books Week are hosting a conversation with banned and challenged Young Adult authors in NYC on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. The discussion will focus on the topic of censorship and the importance of free and open access to all books.
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Susan Shafer, ASJA
 I enjoy writing for the theater. But I hate submitting my scripts.
Every month, there are dozens of theaters and festival and contest organizers who invite playwrights to submit their plays. Usually, the calls specify the length of the play (ten-minute, one-act, full length), the submission deadline, and how the script should be sent (email or snail mail).
While this might seem straight forward, play guidelines can be complicated
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Writer's Digest
Are you staring out the window, daydreaming of an isolated cabin in the woods where you have no other obligation to the world other than to wake up and write every day? If so, you’re in dire need of a writing residency. Every residency is unique. Some are rural, some are urban. Some allow for various social opportunities, while others give you a space and leave you alone.
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The New York Times
Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print. As readers migrated to new digital devices, e-book sales soared, up 1,260 percent between 2008 and 2010, alarming booksellers that watched consumers use their stores to find titles they would later buy online.
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BookBub
Running book marketing campaigns with a specific target audience in mind will help ensure you spend your money and time on channels that reach the readers most likely to purchase your books. To do this, you need to know enough about your audience to know what kinds of books they're searching for, and to cater your marketing copy — retailer descriptions, synopsis on your website, blog posts and interviews, tweets, etc. — to these search queries. This information will allow you to be found by your target audience and ensure that they choose your book as their next read.
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The WRITER
So you have your characters: compelling, quirky, obsessed. They're doing stuff: active, dramatic, in motion. At the end of it all, you hope your reader will feel a certain Aaah. That deep, satisfied, readerly sigh is the result of theme.
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TIME
Bruno Ceschel started the Self Publish, Be Happy imprint in 2010 after he discovered that, away from the mainstream publishing industry, "many talented photographers where making experimental publications. It was an army of young self-publishers," he says. These self-publishers "were reacting to the ephemeral nature of the online consumption of photography and against the dictates of the market," he continues, "while starting to shake the moribund publishing market with weird and wonderful publications."
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The New York Times
The news website ThinkProgress said that it would unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East, becoming the latest digital media outlet to organize in recent months seeking better pay and working conditions.
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