Linda Krug

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The LA Times book festival schedule has been announced. I get to interview Susan Orlean, Melissa Febos and Lana Lin! On Saturday, April 18. www.latimes.com/events/festi...

Family Ghosts: On What We Do and Do Not Learn About Our Parents My mother married my father because she was fainting in the streets with hunger. She told me this one morning as she was getting dressed when I asked her, again. I wanted a story about a moonlit pr…

If you want a taste of my new memoir GHOSTS OF FOURTH STREET (pubbing March 31 from @uminnpress.bsky.social ) here's an excerpt in today's @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/family-ghost... Enjoy!

Congrats, Laurie. A great excerpt. Looking forward the rest!

March 14th and 15th

Keeping Timelines Straight – Elizabeth Spann Craig Learn four practical techniques for maintaining consistent timelines in your fiction and avoiding chronological errors that confuse readers.

Tips for Keeping Timelines Straight: elizabethspanncraig.com/mystery-writ... #wkb89

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

This is a must-read by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

The Authors Guild is allowing more writers to certify their books are AI-free. The Authors Guild is expanding its Human Authored certification program to allow publishers and non-Guild members certify that their work is untainted by AI, according to the Guild and Publishers W…

The program allows authors to verify that their books are written completely by a human and not generated by software, and then gives them a trademarked seal to signal that the book is human authored.

Those characters that won’t stop talking in my head 😊

Hi friends. I know I’ve been quiet on here for a bit, but I wanted to pop in with a little agent insight.

I pass on about 99% of the projects in my inbox.

And surprisingly, it’s usually not because of the writing.

Appreciate the insight, thanks for sharing

37 Marvelous Writing Conferences and Workshops in March 2026 This March there are more than three dozen writing conferences and workshops. Some conferences and workshops will be held online, but most w...

37 Marvelous US Writing Conferences and Workshops in March 2026: publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/02/34-m... by Erica Verrillo #wkb84

Great insight here!

So much ICE out there today in South Minneapolis. They’re prowling around harassing schools.

Stay frosty, friends

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2026! 🎉

This is our second ever #MSWL Day on Bluesky. We’re happy you’re here!

You can, as of TODAY, search Bluesky and ManuscriptWishList.com posts at once: manuscriptwishlist.com/smart-search. All posts are verified by a human who works in publishing. ☕

A good read!

“You Just Do Language.” Lauren Groff on Craft, Reading, and Her New Collection For fiction authors of a certain stripe, a 2023 New York Times profile of the author Lauren Groff landed like an apple on the head. For others, it spilled like piping hot coffee across the laptop. …

“You just do language.” @legroff.bsky.social on craft, reading, and her new collection, Brawler.

Literary superstar @legroff.bsky.social will be reading in my backyard on March 7. If you would like to meet a master craftsperson working at her peak form, I suggest you come.

Tickets include the book and support of our brilliant opening act Sabine McCalla. bluecypressbooks.com/product/laur...

A graphic with a background made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. A white square sits inside the diagonal rainbow with text reading "Send us your March queer book releases". The text is in black all caps font while January is in green all caps font. Below this in a smaller horizontal rainbow font with a black outline is text that reads “fill out the form in our bio”.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our monthly new release call! We are looking for queer books releasing any time during March 2026. Self, Indie and Trad published books are accepted! 🧵

A fabulous, hard fought game!!!

You can donate at KeepMNHoused.com or apply to adopt a rent. Wilson foundation is kicking things off today by granting $250,000 in matching funds to rent funds, so you can also give directly to them and have your donation matched.

Thirteen happy writers (men and women of various ages) standing on the steps of a staircase outside a rustic log cabin in Colorado, Shadowcliff Lodge in Grand Lake. Stone chimney, blue sky, aspen tree in the background.

ATTN: Writers! TWO spaces left! Join us in beautiful Colorado in September! mailchi.mp/ac8585353954...

Our first live Ask Agent is tomorrow! If you’re free during, hop on over to IG and join us! #amquerying #writers #kidlit #publishingindustry

Hot Tip for Writers who are querying:
Have someone who is unfamiliar with your story read over your query and synopsis. If they don’t understand what the book is about or how the story unfolds neither will an agent.

Oline Cogdill interviews this year's Grand Masters, Donna Andrews and Lee Child!
mysterywriters.org/2026-edgar-a...

Now for a closer look: here are the panelists speaking at the 2026 Edgar Symposium. You can also read more and register here: mysterywriters.org/2026-edgar-a...

New issue of #writeagent drops THIS Thursday 2/19! Sign up at serarivers.com #newsletter #literaryagent #writingcommunity

Make sure you query Madelyn! She is actively looking for clients!

A good read for those querying!

Fascist regimes toast as if time belongs to them. Mussolini hung upside down. Ceaușescu faced the wall. Hitler took himself out with a bullet. Power swears it is eternal even when the rot begins to surface. The party always ends. It always ends. Do not kneel. This too shall pass.