Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Talk New Initiatives at The Rumpus
In May of 2025 literary icon Roxane Gay and renowned designer, Debbie Millman of Design Matters acquired the beloved publication The Rumpus. Since the acquisition, they've led the new visual and editorial direction with the aim [...]
July 2026: The Editing Issue
ICYMI: From Previous Issues
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Issues
Writing
Are Books Bringing Us Back to the Theater?
Book adaptations have always been a go-to source for the film industry. But the last two decades of sequels, reboots, cinematic universes, and live-action remakes have left a lot of us feeling unmotivated to spend our [...]
Writing
Are Books Bringing Us Back to the Theater?
Book adaptations have always been a go-to source for the film industry. But the last two decades of sequels, reboots, cinematic universes, and live-action remakes have left a lot of us feeling unmotivated to spend our [...]
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Editing
Editing
8 Signs You’ve Done Enough Editing
You tell yourself you're just going to fix one sentence. An hour later, you've rewritten an entire scene, questioned your opening paragraph, and somehow convinced yourself that your main character's name doesn't fit them anymore. Sound [...]
Marketing
How Can Fiction Writers Use Substack?
For fiction writers, it can be challenging to know how to use Substack to your best advantage—especially when your energy is already stretched thin by drafting and revising a work-in-progress. Novelists often get stumped on what [...]
Marketing
How Can Fiction Writers Use Substack?
For fiction writers, it can be challenging to know how to use Substack to your best advantage—especially when your energy is already stretched thin by drafting and revising a work-in-progress. Novelists often get stumped on what [...]
Publishing
Publishing
PART 2: Behind The Submission Scaries—Anecdotal Insights From Eight Authors
Before landing my literary agent, I had shelved three manuscripts and received over 300 rejections. I’ve cried over characters I’ve known would never see the light of day. Tried to reassure myself, after placing each manuscript [...]
