The MSR 2008 Short Fiction Anthology BIG WATER, is now available featuring award winning shorts, including a beach-themed story from Linda.
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Famous Writer’s Birthdays Today
Straight from Garrison Keillor, a man who my children hate to hear drone in the car- they claim his voice induces car sickness…
From The Writer’s Almanac: January 25th
It’s the birthday of the novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf, (books by this author) born Virginia Stephen in London (1882). She never went to school, but her father chose books for her to read from his own library. She was only allowed to move out of her family home after her father’s death, when she was 22. She moved into a house with her brothers and sister, and instead of writing letters about…
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Taking Reading in Bed to a Whole New Level.
Smart asses read…
Barnes and Noble? Wake up and smell the coffee
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I haven’t found the book I went looking for the last three trips to Barnes And Noble.
I barely found an intelligent clerk to help me not find the book that they didn’t carry but would be happy to order for me. WHAT?
I know, I know. I should be supporting my independent bookstore, and I do frequent the small used book store around the corner, have even ordered new books from them, but sometimes, you’re in the mall, thirsty for coffee and a plush green chair, and well… you succumb.
But after the coffee, the internet usage and the browsing of the…
Free book from “Wicked” Author
Now that’s marketing!
I read this in The New Yorker and think the charity contribution part is brilliant. I have attended many book launches where they request a donation to a charity that is linked to the book’s theme or a character in the book.
When I finished writing We’re Not Waving, We’re Drowning, I began thinking about marketing, about tie-ins about media… this is all part of the business. The part we’re not supposed to think about while writing, and yet…
I have begun searching for charities in Savannah, charities related to literacy, book provision, education, and even joined a few…
It was lots of Labor to read, write, drink, eat and party with costumed characters this weekend.
Decatur Book Festival, 2009 and Dragon*Con. How Atlanta does Labor Day.
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Let's talk books. And book covers.
For as many of my author friends who are ecstatic about the way their book covers turned out.. there must be someone in the wings feeling a bit put out.
Have you seen this story? Got to agree with the author on that one.
And then there’s this one: Yikes.
There is even a contest for the worst covers. Here’s the 2005 finalists.
Some bad book covers I found are funny because they’re out dated: like these
and some I have to say I like, you know, for the art.
I say plenty of stupid things, so why don't I have a book deal yet?
You all remember this former lingerie model?
One of a few things I'm trying to not dwell on.
Here’s the backstory if you’re new here-
or if you’re like my husband who only hears the words that come after steak, beer, bed, free or panties.
I wrote a (steak) novel- actually three, but here- to minimize dwelling potential- we’re only talking about the one my agent read, liked, edited and last week pitched to a bunch of (beer) hot NYC editors.
It’s summer, so of course I have plenty to do to keep me busy (panties) during the waiting period- which I have been told can be three days, four weeks, five months, six years or somewhere short of forever. So…
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Another Perspective on Why Writers Write
I am all about the somethingness. Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
“The writer must not really know what he is knowing, what he is learning to know when he writes, which is more than the knowing of it. A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. The writer is separate from his work but that’s all the writer is – what he writes. A writer must be smart but not too smart. He must be reckless and patient and daring and dull – for what is duller than writing, trying to write?…
Just when you thought you were technically caught up…
Here is the full article at the New York Times about Vook TV – a ebook platform that combines text, video and social networking. You can only sign up for the beta release at the site here . I am definitely in! You can also follow @vooktv on Twitter for the latest. the future of the book is here now!
