Slush Pile: How to Write a Book in Ten Easy…Years Is it taking you ten years to write your book? Christina Thompson says that might just be normal. Blog of the Week: Family Hack Marijean Jaggers (STLWorkingMom.com) joins us for another installment of “Blog of the Week.” Meet the Davis family, a local family with [...]
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Book lovers trade tomes through Web sites "Carly Milner will share hers, if you'll share yours. Her books, that is. In fact, Milner has a whole list of books just ripe for the taking. It includes titles by such hot authors as Michael Chabon and Bill Bryson. All are nearly free for members of BookMooch, [...]
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Nashuatelegraph.com: School nixes four stories from course "LITCHFIELD – Four stories will be removed from an English class curriculum at Campbell High School after a group of parents complained about content that touched on cannibalism, cocaine use, abortion and homosexuality. "Stories by satirist David Sedaris, crime author Laura Lippman, horror novelist Stephen King and legendary [...]
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Practicing Writing: Friday Find: Nathan Bransford's "Writing Advice Database" 'Literary agent Nathan Bransford recently posted a "Writing Advice Database" on his excellent blog. Categories cover "Before You Start," "The Writing Process," "Revising," "Genres and Classification," and "Staying sane during the writing/publishing process." Bransford calls it "an FAQ-style compendium of all the writing advice on the [...]
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An Unusual Storyboard – Design Magazine – Baekdal.com "When Jens Claessens needed to create the ‘rough lines' for his new story, he created this unusual and very detailed storyboard. I am not sure this is the best way to work out a story, but it does make for an interesting illustration." Really cool-looking, check it [...]
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The Lady Killers Looks like a great resource for mystery writers: "Rhys Bowen, Mary Anna Evans, Cara Black, Jane Finnis, Sharan Newman, Carola Dunn, Ann Parker: Seven female writers of mystery fiction share their wit and wisdom, writing tips and travel experiences."
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Internet Review of Books Patterns of the future THE NEXT GENERATION GAP: The Rise of the Digitals and the Ruin of Postmodernism By Kem Luther 332 pp. iUniverse $22.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth McCullough Quiz: Bloomsday | Books | guardian.co.uk "Bloomsday, the annual celebration of Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses, is a fine day to remind yourself of [...]
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Fatuous Observations: Rome, day 1 June 13 I completely understand her horror: "The flight to London was uneventful. I had been afraid to fly and had planned to read Sense & Sensibility as my comfort literature during the flight. I was so looking forward to it! After we took off, I pulled it out of [...]
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I would like to live in one corner of this library. I wouldn’t take up much room. I’d be very quiet. Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker’s Library. Via BookBalloon
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Literary Kicks : Replacing the Review: June 14 2009 "Nobody asked me which literary character I would like to take on the beach, but if anybody cares, I'll choose the blind and suicidal Gloucester from Shakespeare's King Lear, just because it would be so much fun to keep setting him up to jump off a [...]
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