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Jan.24.2013
This was one of my favorite books when I was a child. I think I was around ten when I used to trace the illustrations in pencil, getting every detail before I had to return it to the library. (I'm not even sure why I had to do that, since I was just going to borrow it again anyway...
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Aug.06.2012
photos: The Old Firepit, with raging inferno, and The New Firepit, with distinct and subtle flame.
This is one of those blog moments where everything is sorta connected to everything else, maybe yet another minor epiphany, but here it goes:
So, moments after I (hopefully)...
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Jun.01.2012
Imagine my surprise when my cover artist reminds me that we need permission from a vendor prominently displayed on the cover of the new novel, Among Men, and in the bulk of the story, much of which happens around a hot dog cart in New Orleans. I found a great picture and negotiated with the...
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Feb.15.2012
It would seem to me - no. And it also seems to me not an issue worth the squabble by the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. But - oh! - the publicity.
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James Joyce children's book sparks feud
A children's story by James Joyce has been published for the first...
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Jan.25.2012
Enough dissent has been expressed to stop excerpts of "Mein Kampf" being published in Germany. However, the legal reasoning is that such action would break 'copyright' laws. The state of Bavaria holds copyright to "Mein Kampf" .
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Nov.01.2011
I have not read these books and know nothing of the veracity of the infringement charges. I am surprised that anyone would try to pass off someones work as their own in this day and age. The internet allows such a wide-reaching ability to check up on this type of thing (and to discover it in...
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Oct.25.2011
I've been writing essays for a long time. I started when I had my babies. The hormones or something. Plus I had something to write about, I felt, babies.
Had blogs been around in early 1980, I might have tried to boost my copywriting career by writing a blog, a blog about working as a...
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Sep.04.2011
If you have ever submitted --or plan to submit-- a manuscript into the fleshpots of the publishing world, you might be well advised to read about a growing scandal regarding the confidentiality of your submission, discussed in an article entitled "The Trials Of Joe McGinniss," published earlier...
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May.17.2011
Contrary to popular opinion, writers aren’t writers because they have nothing better to do and are merely killing time until they end up at the cemetery. The majority of us who toil with the pen (and keyboard) need to earn off our labours, just like everyone else on the planet. If you ask a...
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Mar.21.2011
Writing can be a minefield.
A minefield that can hit you square in the checkbook in more than one way.
I’m not talking about editing mistakes, character flaws or even plot inconsistencies. I’m talking legal problems that can arise from your writing – and it may not always be from the words on...
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