Author blacklist?

I got an interesting question posted on our Editor Chat page, wanting to know about a very feared idea:
Hey is there really something known as a blacklist for writers?
I’ve heard of it, but get different feelings from different people on the subject…
Many writers have heard of a universal “black list” that will damn an author [...]

I’m going craaaaaazy!

It’s funny, how when one is stuck in an unwanted situation (such as reading piles and piles of crap loaded on the corner of my sagging desk), the ends to which the human mind will go in order to keep its sanity.
Despite my displeasure at country music in the last decade, I’ve found that Garth [...]

Interview with W.D. Wilcox, author of “The Voyage of the Wayfarer,” the Editors’ Pick for Abaculus 2007

Interview between Leucrota Press Editor in Chief Danielle Kaheaku and author W.D. Wilcox.

DKaheaku: Tell just a little about yourself.
Wilcox: I am ever so old, 56, but it seems like thirty. I am an accomplished musician and have sold seven songs in Hollywood, CA. I run a retail mattress store and write in [...]

Do you need to put a copyright notice before submitting your manuscript?

I got an email the other day from a potential submitter, and I thought that it would be wise, and time-saving of me, to post it here on the blog.
…do I need to put a copyright notice on the cover page? Or should I put it in the footer of the document? Which do you [...]

What’s in a name? – Titles for your novel.

So you’re finally finished writing it – the thing that has taken up all of your free time for the past two years (or more), the monkey on your back that wouldn’t let you sleep, that had you pulling out your pen and paper while on vacation with your family because The Idea came to [...]