I am not from here

and I'm not feeling romantic

Important announcements!

• Belt is holding two (online) spring salons this month. I’m moderating one, “Does Nonfiction Have to be Narrative?” Learn more and sign up here. The topic comes from frustration with everyone thinking the *only* way to write nonfiction is to find some historical or alive person to become a “character” and drum up the tension. Not so!

• I’m teaching my “How to Write A Nonfiction Book Proposal” course in June. If cost is a hurdle, shoot me a note.

After an origin story I will tell you all some day—it’s full of drama and tsuris!—the final copies of Ed Simon’s An Alternative History of Pittsburgh arrived at the Belt offices, and are being shipped to their new forever homes. It’s perfect for those looking for a brainy, short, information-packed tale of a place from geologic to Google times.

As the press has evolved, we now divide our catalog into two broad categories: ‘local’ and, well, ‘books whose whose primary audience do not live in one media market.’ Ed’s bo…