by AnnSheybani | Apr 25, 2026 | books, promotion, publishing, Reading
The other night Walt sent me an Instagram reel of a Korean American woman making army stew while she told a story about her father, as a teenager, running for his life from police who’d just gunned down student protesters in 1960. Her dad’s takeaway from a...
by AnnSheybani | Apr 20, 2026 | publishing, Writing
When I came out of grad school, writers had to bank on traditional publishing houses to choose them for a sense of worth and/or credibility. You could self-publish—it was called vanity publishing then—but that had all the panache of finding a spouse in the classified...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 27, 2025 | promotion, publishing, Writing
Most evenings after work, my father would be outside running the lawn mower, spraying the grass with a garden hose, or spreading Scott’s seed, dandelion killer, or lime by the 50-lb bagful. Come fall, he’d attack the leaves with a rake for hours on end and... by AnnSheybani | Jul 18, 2025 | publishing, Writing
So here’s what happened. A woman named…oh, I’ll call her Taylor Swift because Walt is super into her…. reached out with some questions about Summit Press’s hybrid publishing model versus going the self-publishing route. These were smart... by AnnSheybani | Apr 28, 2024 | publishing, Writing
I run into writers who do not understand the publishing world AT ALL. Take the nice person who commented on this video. If it’s taking you two years to get published–and I’m not talking about the traditional production process, which feels like... by AnnSheybani | Aug 19, 2023 | publishing, Writing
When I came out of grad school, writers had to bank on traditional publishing houses to choose them for a sense of worth and/or credibility. You could self-publish—it was called vanity publishing then—but that had all the panache of finding a spouse in the classified...
