For one month, Fleeting Pages, a coalition of independent presses, authors, artists, magazines and zines, is stocking the space with books, magazines, zines, comics and art.
I'm a serious writer, and people don't look at vanity press authors as serious.
Should it be seen as a general triumph for small-press authors (Ms. Gordon's publisher, McPherson & Company, which has championed her work for decades, remains a company with a post office box for a mailing address), or as a full-blown, legitimate recognition of 2010's best work of fiction?
2. No vanity press "authors".
She Writes Press authors have scored amazing blurbs--blurbs from New York Times best-selling authors and champions of people's dreams.
An earlier version of this column first appeared in Underground Book Reviews, an online magazine run by indie and small-press authors who are passionate about writing.
Note: A version of this column first appeared in Underground Book Reviews, an online magazine run by indie and small-press authors who are passionate about writing.
When people, including press, authors, filmmakers, documentarians, who are working on projects that involve the President ask to speak with administration officials, we do our best to accommodate them to make sure the facts are correct.
Not only the authors featured by the big boys who deliver boxes of the same stuff to every single retail space from BJ's to Walmart to Barnes and Noble and -- heaven help us -- Amazon, but local writers, poets and yes, the small press authors.
At any point during the process until the 'submit' button has been pressed, authors can go back to an earlier stage to change information; or they can interrupt the process, and their details and uploaded files will be stored to be picked up later.
Her agent at the time told her, "O.K., Jaimy, you have to learn that you really are a small-press author".
