Though Diana Gallagher be but little, she is fierce. She's also a gymnastics coach and judge, former collegiate gymnast, and writing professor. She holds an MFA from Stony Brook University and her work has appeared in The Southampton Review, International Gymnast, and on a candy cigarette box for SmokeLong Quarterly. To learn more, visit her website at dianagallagher.blogspot.com.
There are so many paths to publishing books, and even within those paths, there are others. One that so often yields excellent books that don’t get nearly the publicity they deserve is that of traditionally publishing through an independent publisher—one that isn’t affiliated with a larger corporation and therefore doesn’t have quite the same financial […]
Young adult books from independent publishers are always among the most exciting, because they often come with so much more freedom to push boundaries and feature strong representation that others don’t. Smaller publishers provided some of my favorite books of 2016 (see: On the Edge of Gone, by Corinne Duyvis; The Abyss Surrounds Us, by Emily Skrutskie; Not […]