Here's what's going around around the WD properties...

The launch of There Are No Rules is here.  My boss, Jane Friedman, the editorial director of Writer's Digest Books, recently launched her own blog to tackle the big questions of publishing.
      I remember watching Jane speak at a conference one time when an attendee asked, "How do publishers get books on those tables you see when you first enter Barnes & Noble?" (I was thinking, Good question! I have no idea...) Jane didn't miss a beat. "They pay for it," she started, explaining the whole process.  If you want to know things about trends, publishers, remainders, sales and all that, Jane's blog is a great place to check.

Writer's Digest staffer Brian Klems, who runs the Questions & Quandaries blog, recently answered a pair of submitted questions:
      1. Why do authors use pseudonyms?
      2. What is a literary executor?

Keep your eyes on the blog for forthcoming interviews with Jacqueline Hackett, an agent at Literary-Works; as well as Bernadette Baker, an agent with Baker's Mark Literary who specializes in graphic novels.

And I won't talk much about this last part because I plan to do a bigger post soon, but the Writer's Digest Books Writers' Conference (in conjunction with BookExpo America) is set to go down on Wednesday, May 28, in downtown LA at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Be there or be square!