by AnnSheybani | Dec 8, 2025 | Reading
Every year around the holidays, I love pulling together book recommendations—and this year, I thought: who better to ask than published authors? After all, writers tend to be voracious readers who know their stuff. I asked some of our Summit Press authors to share...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 17, 2025 | Reading, Writing
“This is the hardest thing you will ever do.” That’s what Gordo, the instructor of our Intro to Scuba Diving class, told us while he scrawled his name on the blackboard. Gordo was a big guy, nearly 300 pounds of flesh that couldn’t have been...
by AnnSheybani | Oct 27, 2025 | Reading, Writing, writing lessons
As a chemistry major who really shouldn’t have been a chemistry major for a whole host of reasons, I nearly lost my mind with physical chemistry. One exercise that I found particularly punishing was proving “proofs” for quantum theorems. I mean, how... by AnnSheybani | Oct 19, 2025 | Reading, Writing
I was sitting in a workshop at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, watching Scott Russell Sanders field questions about his career. If you don’t know Scott’s work, he’s written a bunch of books and made his living that way, with a side of teaching...
by AnnSheybani | Oct 12, 2025 | Reading
Every Iranian New Year, we’d drive through Abadan, and I’d watch the flames shooting from the tops of those massive stacks—the oil refinery burning off excess natural gas like some kind of industrial volcano. The infrastructure stretched for acres, a...
by AnnSheybani | Sep 29, 2025 | Reading, Writing
I’m not one to brag on clients (okay, that’s a lie—I totally am), but Cecilia and Jason Hilkey are the real deal, and I want you to know about them. Here’s what happened: These two came to me at the end of 2024 wanting to publish a parenting...
