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Among North America’s most professionally produced author events, the 2015 Writer’s Digest Annual Conference dances into New York this week, as Manuscript WishList tells writers just what moves literary agents are looking for.

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F+W Media’s HOW Design Live conference brings to more than 4,000 attendees in Chicago a message of creativity’s digital tools, collaborative potential — and importance to the world.

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As self-publishing matures, there may be a growing sense that the means of publishing was never the point. Independent authors, on the whole, may be moving past the self-pub crusading stage and on to a new, refreshing focus — on the work itself.

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After nine years with the company, the affable director of author and publisher relations is moving on, his wry honesty echoing in the industry: “The good news is that today everybody can publish a book. The bad news is that today everybody an publish a book.”

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Don’t come at me with what you say are examples of novel-craft that start, “Remember in that movie when Tom Hanks…”

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In his “Dirty Little Secrets” conference presentation, Writer’s Digest Publisher Phil Sexton tells authors to ask their publishers what support their books are getting — and what they can do to help.”

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Every Year, New Moves Staging national-class writers’ conferences has never been easy. Competing interests go with the territory. In the past, organizers could lose a lot of sleep over the question of “craft vs.

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When Jane Friedman left the helm of Writers Digest after more than 10 years with the $10 million dollar brand, we all wondered what would come next.