Dear Lee: The Question Is...

Question: We are a group of industry professionals that have come together with the goal of offering an online weekly newspaper for those in the writing, publishing and literary service. So far we are exceeding our expectations, and our circulation is climbing higher and higher with each new issue. Every week, we provide new features, headline news, interviews, book reviews, even comics and horoscopes. We have found that our success has resulted in questions, questions and more questions. Questions like, “I am a writer and can’t seem to make it to first base with my editor. What should I do?” Or, “I have been an agent for twenty years. What can I do about the Internet blogs that are destroying my business?”

Now only one question remains, and it happens to be ours: “What do we do with all the questions?” Signed, WritersNewsWeekly

Answer: Dear Lee

WritersNewWeekly is taking its own advice and starting an advice column called “Dear Lee.” The column has been described as the “Dear Abby” for publishing trade. It is witty, honest and sometimes just plain silly. When asked why Lee agreed to do the column, the answer came quickly: “If you are lucky, you get to live a lot in the time you are given. If you are really lucky, you get to live a lot and live long. If you are super lucky, some where between living a lot and living long you actually learn something worth sharing. I know how to share. It’s what I do best. I’m so good at sharing that people often have suggested that I write an advice column. Several people even offered to pay me to give advice to their worst enemies. Go figure.”

That being said, WritersNewsWeekly invites our readers to submit their questions to: dearlee@writersnewsweekly.com.