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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #200: Amplify

  • Melissa Duclos
  • November 14, 2019
“Being misunderstood is a really terrible feeling.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Leland Cheuk

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 16, 2016
Leland Cheuk discusses his novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, dark humor, cancer, morally corrupt characters, and his mother.
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Not Enough Buzz to Go Around

  • Katie O'Brien
  • September 9, 2016
At Lit Hub, Ilana Masad outlines the importance of publicists in generating buzz for new books in a social media saturated-environment, and the struggle many authors face to generate their…
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The Rumpus Interview with Will Evans

  • Graham Oliver
  • August 24, 2016
Will Evans, Executive Director of Deep Vellum Publishing, talks about publishing translated works as well as the Texas and Dallas literary scene he wants to help grow.
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Book Marketing in Five Minutes or Less

  • Victor Luo
  • April 7, 2016
Does the idea of marketing the book you’ve slaved over for years cause nothing but dread? No problem! Minimize the time you spend thinking about your book’s promotion by taking…
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The Literary Hustle

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 5, 2016
Even after authors finish writing their book, they have plenty of work to do to promote it. With so many books and limited space in media outlets, the literary hustle…
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Guildtalk #3: Lori Ostlund

  • Richard Russo
  • December 4, 2015
For our ongoing Authors Guild series, Lori Ostlund speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo about what it means to live a literary life in the 21st century.
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Annoying Authors

  • Lyz Lenz
  • April 16, 2015
Writer Delilah Dawson on why self-promotion for authors is a bad idea: From the very beginning of my writing career, I’ve been told that publishers want a writer to have…
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Tooting Your Own Horn

  • Roxie Pell
  • January 13, 2015
Should writers retweet their own praise? Insofar as Twitter is a platform for self-promotion, sharing positive reviews seems logical—but when a publishing medium does double duty as a sphere of…
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The Self-Promotional Balancing Act

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 11, 2014
When does sending an email blast about an upcoming event become spam? Writers are as much publicists as they are authors, and social media hasn’t made things any easier. Over…
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Less Face, More Book for These Reclusive Authors

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 5, 2013
Though it can be hard to remember between tweeting at your favorite writer and joining a Facebook event page for a reading, there was a time when many authors led…
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Why Are Artists Poor?

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • August 27, 2009
It’s a question close to our hearts, and Andrew Keen — who has argued, in his own words, that “the Internet is killing our culture and undermining the livelihood of…
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