Bay Area Book Festival, year 2!

Even though San Francisco is second only to Manhattan in publishing might, we didn’t have a book festival to call our own until last year. (We have LitQuake, but that’s more like a pub crawl than a daytime festival.) This year’s second Bay Area Book...

#NeverDoneDreamin Contest Grand Prize WINNER

There were some great entries in the #NeverDoneDreamin true love story contest, so let’s get to it. In second place, we have: Wow. It’s not every day you travel to another continent to profess your love. Congratulations, @ThisDrunkPhoto! DM us...

#NeverDoneDreamin Contest!

Hey, romance lovers! We’re celebrating the print publication of Never Done Dreamin’ by Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement nominee, Janis Flores, with a little contest about true love. Tweet your true love story with the hashtag...

Fast Five with Thad McIlroy, Publishing Expert

This week, Fuse is putting the spotlight on publishing expert Thad McIlroy. Thad is an electronic publishing analyst and author based in San Francisco. A well-established expert in the technology and marketing issues surrounding electronic publishing, color imaging...

“Can I Submit My Work to Editors and Agents Simultaneously?”

I get this question all the time at conferences. So let’s break this down…. It does happen sometimes that a querying author will let me know that their material is currently under review at a publishing house (usually because they had an invitation from...

Achieving the ultimate conference experience

I recently stumbled upon a blog post about a writer’s experience at a particular conference, one I’ve attended, and it made me think about how the same conference can feel very different to two writers. There are so many different conferences, and your personality and...