Writers who respond to reviewers

The first section I turn to in the New York Review of Books is Letters. Specifically, I want to see if any of the authors under review in a previous issue have made the terrible yet entertaining mistake of responding to a negative review. There’s almost always one. Different authors have different techniques. Here are [...]

Ballooning

Spotted directly over my house last week:

Have you seen this man?

C-Ville Weekly and The Hook have been having a little fun with one local writer. Ralph Barnett, author of Spiritual e-Soup: A Compilation of Inspirational Messages from the Internet, is holding book signings anywhere and everywhere in Charlottesville that will give him house-room. Cville Weekly calls it “the Boston Marathon of autograph sessions.” Today he’s [...]

What would you be willing to do?

Responses to a couple of posts I’ve made lately have got me to thinkin’ — what would I be willing to do to promote my book? I don’t have a book to sell (yet), but I dream about it a lot. Of course, in my dream my manuscript is immediately snapped up by Big Name [...]

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