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Oct.16.2008
A couple of weeks ago I linked to Ayelet Waldman's brainchild, Books for Barack. Yesterday she officially called it closed--and it was a success beyond her greatest expectations. She thought she might get a few hundred signed books from authors; she'd gotten over 1,500 before she finally felt so...
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Oct.11.2008
Well, I'm out of hospital, phew - and I do have to say how absolutely lovely everyone at Mount Alvernia was, and that includes all the wonderful ward staff, the consultant and anaesthetist too, hurrah. And also a HUGE thank you to everyone who sent good wishes - I really appreciated it, as I was...
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Oct.09.2008
I have secured artwork for the cover of my book! Alexandra Cespedes' "Man and His Violin" will grace the cover of my book, "How God Ends Us".
Here's a link to a photo of the painting:
http://www.acentosreview.com/June_2008_/Cespedes.html
I am so excited and honored and...
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Oct.08.2008
Yesterday, there was an article in PW Daily about a bookseller's passionate outburst to rally independent booksellers and the need to educate authors about disabling the Amazon.com links on their websites. She said it was a case of "survival."
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/...
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Oct.08.2008
Are some writers naïve or just being 'proper'?
When her new book was out, Jhumpa Lahiri said:
“I do not write to please reviewers. Writing to me is fundamentally a private act and a form of meditation in words. I think about the characters that I make up and their lives. Nobody is listening, but me...
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Oct.07.2008
There is a bit early in "The Wind in the Willows" where Rat is telling Mole that "there is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing. . .messing--about--in--boats. . . ." Substitute 'books' for 'boats' and you have...
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Oct.07.2008
Joan Reeves, from Slingwords.blogspot.com, tagged me to write “6 things about me and books.” She also tagged: Sweet But Sassy Adina, Bill Crider, Cait London, and L. C. Hayden.
Books, as I look over my computer desk I have four room-length bookshelves above me, filled past capacity with books I’ve...
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Oct.06.2008
Am once more neck-deep in timetabling issues for the refresher talks but, thanks to the totally wonderful Safety guy, it all seems to be relatively under control. For the moment. I’m sure most things are more successfully sorted when I’m actually not there. Which is much like the play, The Dog It...
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Oct.06.2008
I bought my first iPod about a year ago and I'm an addict.
I love listening to my favorite soundtracks as I write, so I've loaded all of them on the iPod, along with some Springsteen, some meditation music, and chants by Krishna Das. But most of all, I love listening to books. The iPod is a little...
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Oct.05.2008
So, are remaindered books ever pulped...or is that a fading myth? How aware are authors of the commercial fate of their offspring? Bargain bookstores serve a purpose in making surplus titles more widely available and, occasionally the author will earn a reduced royalty on sales.
But what about...
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