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Apr.21.2010
Writing News:
I'm happy to say that my literary short story, The Secret Thoughts of Leaves, is now published at Untreed Reads, and you can also read an extract here. And isn't that cover wonderful? I love it.
Other writing news is that my gay fantasy short story, Angels and Airheads, will now be...
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Apr.07.2010
The greatest fault of literary awards is that they, like the review industry, are largely directed at new writing. There is no reason why the “best” books should be “new” books. Whereas commercial fiction is topical, trendy, and has a very short shelf life, literary fiction is not. If an industry...
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Apr.05.2010
Episode #002 of The Velvet Podcast just went live a few hours ago. Me, Chris Deal, Bob Pastorella, and Chris Bodenstein talk about: Why the disparity between genre fiction and literary fiction? Why are these two modes so often thought of as mutually exclusive? Though genre fiction (the...
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Mar.26.2010
Although my debut novel To The Last Drop is still aloft, my attention has shifted to other projects.
My father, Dr. Paul Wice, passed away in November of 2009. He raised me and I miss him terribly. He was a Political Science Professor at Drew University, and wrote eleven scholarly books including...
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Mar.23.2010
Award Winning Books A Century of November: A Novel (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards) by W.D. Wetherell
The Folded World by Amity Gaige
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Midnight's Children (1981 Booker Prize) by Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie ( 2006 ), and Anna...
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Mar.04.2010
http://www.vagabondjourney.com/travelogue/2008/06/going-to-romania-with-gypsy.htmlFranz Kafka looking over Prague night and day.
GENRE OF THE MONTHLiterary Fiction
In the 52 w/e 6th December 2009, consumers bought 8.0m literary fiction books, and spent £51m on them.
Literary fiction's share of...
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Feb.26.2010
HarperCollins has turned to “crowdsourcing” to find material to publish. Their online site www.authonomy.com invites authors to submit their novels to be reviewed by other novelists who have also submitted their work. This is a new kind of publisher slush pile. Instead of having interns or...
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Feb.26.2010
Unaware, perhaps, that they no are no longer reaping rewards for their creator, used copies of my novels find their ways into online used bookstores and resell and resell. What were your chances ten years ago of walking into a second-hand bookshop and finding the obscure book you were after? Nil....
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Feb.26.2010
Do you remember in the nineties, when those enemies of progress decried the big box booksellers nudging independent stores out of business? They claimed chainstore dominance would ultimately decrease the diversity of titles sold. We might have listened. They were right. Once there were thousands of...
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Jan.28.2010
The president of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. wants to meet and discuss a project using my VITRUVIAN MAN novel...perhaps representing it to publishers...perhaps developing it for a movie.
If any Red Room member can provide me with info on the legit status of PMA Literary & Film...
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