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How to Become a More Productive Book Author

By André Darlington If you think landing a book deal is difficult, try writing a manuscript within today’s tight timelines. Some multi-year projects still exist, but many authors count book schedules...

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Q&A: John Birdsall on Writing a Profile of James Beard

Recently I had the pleasure of reading The Man Who Ate Too Much, by John Birdsall, a two-time James Beard Award-winning author and a writer I’ve admired since his early days as a critic. John combined...

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10 Food Writing Prompts to Try

Now that you have more spare time, how about a fun writing exercise? Think of it as a break from making sourdough bread, or searching for toilet paper. People love food writing prompts. Readers give me...

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Submit Your Writing to a New Food Writing Anthology

There’s a big new game in town, and you can play. Before, Best Food Writing, an anthology compiled by freelance writer Holly Hughes, came out every year. You would submit your writing, and she decided...

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7 Ways to Deal with Negative Feedback on Your Writing

Negative feedback on your writing is hard, even when someone delivers it with sensitivity. I got negative feedback regularly from my writing group, but it was rarely as bad as it sounds. Most of the...

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Want to Write Cookbook Reviews? Here are 5 Tips

A guest post by Martha Lorden   I love cookbooks, so it’s only natural that I hunger for a way to share my interest and enthusiasm. As a result, I write cookbook reviews for Publishers Weekly (PW), a...

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If You Want to Write a Biography About a Famous Person or Two…

At a conference I attended recently, a panel focused on two kinds of projects: writing a memoir and writing a biography. Moderated by Cara De Silva, the panelists were memoirists Elissa Altman, Mark...

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Get Some Humor into Your Food Writing

A guest post by Debbie Moose The funny thing about being funny is that, once you try writing that way, you probably won’t want to stop. Humorous food writing connects with readers better than the...

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Smitten Kitchen Shows You 100 Ways to Promote Recipes

One of the things food writers struggle with most is how to promote recipes in a way that sounds authentic and not too braggy. You know your recipe is “the best,” but you can’t keep saying that for...

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5 Ways To Boost Productivity When Writing About Food on the Side

A guest post by Sarah Burchard Barbecue sauce turned me into a writer. After 12 years of working in restaurant kitchens, I entered the world of entrepreneurship, launching a line of barbecue sauces...

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What I Learned by Starting a Blog Interview Series

A guest post by Lisa Johnson A few years ago, I started a food interview series called “You Pick Six.” To my surprise, I have now completed 21 interviews of local food bloggers, food publicists,...

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What I Learned Writing a Cookbook as a Late Bloomer

A guest post by Sara Bir My whole life I’ve dreamed of writing a cookbook. But even with formal culinary chops and years of experience as a writer, it seemed like no one in the publishing industry took...

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How Michael Twitty Wrote the James Beard Book of the Year

I’ve been trying to nail down Michael Twitty for an interview since May, when he won the James Beard Book of the Year for The Cooking Gene, as well as the award for Best Narrative Writing. And the...

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Favorite Personal Essays and Why They’re So Good

Personal essays — ostensively about food — tug at your heart by bringing up emotions. No matter if you’re writing about Chinese food, your trip to Bolivia or your dad’s obsession with poutine, all...

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