To unravel insider secrets on how to be published with the Big Five, PEN America hosted a panel discussion where award-winning author @profsue123.bsky.social spoke with six industry experts. If you couldn’t make the event, hosted by P&T Knitwear, here are five takeaways: pen.org/how-to-publi...

❤️ celebrating brilliant new📚by Rasul Freelain (WHEN LAMBS BECOME WOLVES) Jessica Hoppe (FIRST IN THE FAMILY) Jerrold Weinberg (MENOPAUSE MENDED) Jocelyn Jane Cox (MOTION DAZZLE) Raj Tawney (COLORFUL PALATE) & Kaitlyn Wells (UNDER THE CLAM MOON) thanks to Posman Books!

Excited for my in-person panel with @penamerica.bsky.social at PT Knitwear on April 20 with amazing editors, agents & authors!

❤️ celebrating brilliant new 📚by former students Rebecca Morrison, Orlando Mendiola, Judy Batalion, Namratha Stanley Svetlana Satchkova, colleagues Robert Polito & Clarence A. Haynes, thanks to Posman Books, Sameer Butt for pics & everyone who came!

I admit it- I'm addicted to writing about quitting my addictions. Here's the latest thanks to @aarp.org's The Ethel & The Girlfriend! ethel.aarp.org/health/aging...

On 3/10 @nypost.com's Sonya Gugliara &Rich Calder wrote false allegations about my former student Demetrius Napolitano, 31, an NYU grad & former foster child & Black man from Harlem who has overcome a lifetime of obstacles. You should fact check & apologize. amsterdamnews.com/news/2024/03...

Here's the tape of my inspiring SECRETS OF LANDING A BOOK DEAL panel thanks to brilliant panelists and SWINY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA8G...

Excited for my free book panel Monday 1/5/26 at 6 pm EST thanks to @davidlevine.bsky.social & brilliant #agents and #editors. You can register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #zoom #writing #publishing #books #panel #novel #memoir #fiction #nonfiction #kidlit #selfhelp #biography

Happy Thanksgiving! My latest piece, thanks to great Salon editors Joseph Neese Kelly McClure Erin Keane & shrinks who shared their wisdom Justena Kavanagh Diana Kirschner Carlos Saavedra Vélez Vatsal G. Thakkar, M.D. Kristen Underhill Welch & FCW! www.salon.com/2025/11/26/1...

❤️celebrating brilliant new📚by @melissafraterrigo (THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD) @jcsnuggy (A TEMPORARY DWELLING) @victorpineiro (THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS) @clarenceahaynes (THE GHOSTS OF GWENDOLYN MONTGOMERY) @davidmargolick (WHEN CAESAR WAS KING) & @lauriestories Gwen (THE AVIATOR & THE SHOWMAN)!

Here's the tape to my inspiring Secrets to Land a Book Deal Panel! youtu.be/NhJRLOAGrMw

In my inspiring free zoom SECRETS TO LAND A BOOK DEAL PANEL tomorrow Sat 10/25 at 6 pm EST, 11 former students reveal how they recently landed #book deals in 10 different genres #fiction #nonfiction #memoir #essays #kidlit #anthology #selfhelp #biography #shortstories

❤️ brilliant new📚by Cleyvis Natera (THE GRAND PALOMA RESORT) Eskor David Johnson (PAY AS YOU GO) Harold Rogers (TROPICALIA) Hyeseung Song (DOCILE) Gayle Kirschenbaum (FROM BULLIED TO BESTIES) Kelly Sullivan Walden (DREAMIFESTING) & Timothy Latterner's THE BOWERY REVIEW comedy magazine!

When life gave me 🍋 I pitched the NYT THE SECRET ROOTS OF ROOT CANALS! Thanks to great editor Julia Calderone experts Saul Pressner Michael Sosnay Rico Short & all the doctors who shared smart quotes! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

Excited for my free NYU Secrets of Publishing panel Wednesday 9/24 with luminaries: author Mateo Askaripour, agents Kate McKean Landon, Pronoy Sarkar & Matthew Carnicelli, editors Sarah Robbins, Lee Oglesby & Jesse David Register for tickets here: www.nyubookstoreevents.com/.../free-sec....

Join P&T Knitwear and PEN America on 9/8 as author Susan Shapiro (@profsue123.bsky.social) reveals the SECRETS OF PUBLISHING, with panelists: Miya Lee, Alia Hannah Habib, Paul Whitlatch, Rachel Kahan, Krishan Trotman, and Rob Cameron. Click for details and tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-sc...

New Washington Post piece thanks to Allison Klein & sages: Dr. Diana Doreen Oliver Esther Perel Vatsal Thakkar, Jerry Portwood, Manny Mandel, Kristin Underhill, FCW, Patty Gross & Valerie Wilson Wesley ❤️ readers sharing their own advice! Anything to add? www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

Celebrating brilliant new 📚 by Honor Jones (SLEEP) Susan Morrison (LORNE) Jonathan Conyers (I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE) Regina Porter (THE RICH PEOPLE HAVE GONE AWAY) Henry Alford (I DREAM OF JONI) Cathy Linh Che (BECOMING GHOST) & Phillip Lopate (MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA)

❤️ celebrating new 📚 by Honor Jones (SLEEP) Susan Morrison (LORNE)Jonathan Conyers (I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE) Regina Porter(THE RICH PEOPLE HAVE GONE AWAY) Cathy Linh Che (BECOMING GHOST) Henry Alford (I DREAM OF JONI) Phillip Lopate (MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA) Buy-read-post-pitch-review!

Honored to have a piece in Zibby Owens' Substack ON BEING JEWISH NOW launched by her anthology (18 weeks on USA Today's Bestseller list!) inspired by pieces by Nicole Bokat, Ruth Bonapace, Amy Klein Judy Batalion, Brenda Janowitz Alix Strauss & others! onbeingjewishnow.substack.com/p/wounded-i-...

Here's my new @washingtonpost.com Mother's Day piece thanks to my great editors & Hope Edelman, Vatsal Thakkar, Carlos Saavedra Velez, Justena Kavanagh, Juan Gaddis, Jackie Roberts, Haig Chahinian & FCW for sharing their wisdom! www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

On April 22, NBCC member @profsue123.bsky.social will be moderating the Secrets of Publishing panel, featuring @aliahanna.bsky.social, @katemckean.bsky.social, Pronoy Sarkar; Emi Ikkanda, Krishan Trotman, and Lester Fabian Braithwaite, at P&T Knitwear in New York at 6:30 p.m:

❤️ celebrating brilliant new 📚 by Michelle Adams (THE CONTAINMENT) Edgar Gomez (ALLIGATOR TEARS) Kevin Nguyen (MY DOCUMENTS) Peter Trachtenberg (THE TWILIGHT OF BOHEMIA & former students Michelle Jungmin Bang (SUN & SSUKGAT) & Alyson Gerber (THE LIAR'S SOCIETY) thanks to Posman Books!

Excited for my #nyc in-person #writing #publishing #panel at P& T Knitwear Tues 4/22 at 7 pm with amazing #agents #editors #authors! Thanks for helping me spread the word PEN American #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #memoir #essays #books

Happy Valentine's Day! My latest in @washpost.bsky.social mixes ForgivenessTour with 5Menwhobrokemy❤️ www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

You can still register for my exciting zoom Secrets of Book Publishing panel tomorrow WEDNESDAY 1/22 AT 7 PM EST with amazing editors, agents & authors. Email me at [email protected] if you need a free student comp www.eventbrite.com/e/secrets-of...

Here's my zoom SECRETS OF LANDING A BOOK DEAL PANEL thanks to David Levine, Jennifer Cable & former students with brilliant new books out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3wF...

At least I got a (hopefully) humorous piece out of the deal - and a few more good Unhooked reviews on Amazon thanks to Robert Lee Brewer & Amy Jones at Writer's Digest! www.writersdigest.com/getting-publ...

Check out The @nytimes.com oped FOR MANY OF US, JAN. 6 NEVER ENDED by Aquilino Gonell my hero coauthor of American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy (on CNN & MSNBC tomorrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

Happy to hear my piece in The Girlfriend was in their best of the year roundup thanks to Shelley Emling! www.thegirlfriend.com/health/the-o...

Our first episode was with the inimitable @profsue123.bsky.social. @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, & @ajfields.bsky.social talk with Susan Shapiro about infertility, publishing, & Sergeant Aquilino Gonell's American Shield. literarymama.substack.com/p/did-i-marr...

Excited for my free zoom publishing panel this Saturday with luminary editors, agents & authors. To RSVP, email me at [email protected]