Author name: Kassia Krozser

Since the moment that epublishing was a pipe dream for authors, writer organizations have had an uncomfortable relationship with the medium. No organization, however, has been so publicly awkward in the epub dance than the Romance Writers of America. For nearly a decade now, the RWA has been engaged in a weird battle between the traditionally published and the electronically published. In creating a tortured criteria of “Subsidy” or “Vanity”, RWA misses the mark. And for a nearly a decade now, these battles have seemed to be more about protecting an old-school model of publishing rather than embracing changes in

Word on the street is that Donald Rumsfeld is shopping his memoirs. If I recall correctly, it sounded like he was paying courtesy calls to the major publishing houses. “Hi, pleased to meet you. I’ll be expecting you to offer me a lot of money soon.” And it doesn’t matter what a publisher’s political bent might be, the response wasn’t so much starry-eyed as dollar sign-eyed. Though I am clearly not one to give fiscal advice, I can say this: stop the madness! While it seems like a coup to score the memoirs of the moment — these are not