Contributor news: Valley Haggard’s new book, new ventures, excerpts, praise, info.
“When we surrender our weapons, our true writing and our true selves begin to emerge in our lives and on the page in a way that is brave, beautiful …” Valley Haggard is one of her hometown’s best-loved heroines, both for her own writing and for the programs she’s founded to help others find their...
Online Exclusive: “Two Hats at Once: A Book Publicist Turns Writer (and Markets Her Own Book Too),” by Caitlin Hamilton Summie.
“I have always believed in marketing a book for its full life, not for a season or a set time period. The one thing I have learned about marketing is that it can be endless.” Caitlin designed her own ads for email blasts such as this one. Sometimes an author is her own best publicist — and sometimes...
Truth Teller Spotlight: Caitlin Hamilton Summie.
“We know that small press publicity is trench warfare …” After decades in publishing, where she carved out a niche as one of the industry’s top publicists and marketing strategists, Caitlin Hamilton Summie has just brought out her own first story collection, To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts, with Fomite Press. The book represents twenty-five years’ worth of story writing,...
FLAR (Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review) digs into BROAD STREET.
Ever wonder what goes into producing a print magazine and keeping it in the public eye during the internet age? How about the ways a website and a print organ can support each other? So glad you asked! And glad, too, that A. E. Bayne of Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review sat down for a chat about...
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Onward into 2017!
It’s a new year, perhaps a fraught year, but one that is bringing good things to us at Broad Street. For one thing, we have added illustrious members to our editorial staff: Gretchen Comba (read her “Truth Teller Spotlight“), Katy Resch George, and Siddiqah Mujahid. Welcome to them! And we’re thrilled to be working on...
