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Dec.15.2008
It's a strange state for a writer to be in. One book is done. The next proposal is almost finished. And the mind wanders through the possibilities like a bee in a flower garden, tasting this idea, that idea, wondering where exactly to alight and dig in.
The question every writer hears, over and...
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Dec.14.2008
My new puppies are up at Moria: “THIS” * “HOW I GOT TO RUSSIA’S KNAPSACK” * “MY LOVE ISN’T” * “BROOKLYN WHITE INK PARTY” * “CHASTEN THE TAIL”
The complete list of Moria contributors:
Camille Martin, Charles Perrone, Heller Levinson, Philip Byron Oakes, Trish Falin, Rebecca Eddy, Chris Major, Onur...
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Dec.13.2008
End-of-semester work has piled up! More to come …
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In the meantime, please enjoy a list of online journal sites suggested by WOMPO members!
WOM-PO best online journals:
Americana: A Journal of Popular Culture (http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/index.htm) Anti (http://...
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Dec.11.2008
Of all the things that have changed about America good and bad, one thing certainly hasn't: if there's money to be made on something, we will figure out a way to make it. It's all about seizing the opportunity when you get your fifteen minutes of fame. And lo and behold, one opportunistic man from...
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Dec.11.2008
This blog has been much too bleak lately. Let's look on the bright side. Though it seems our world is crumbling around us, here are some factoids to help us keep our writerly chins up:
From http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.html: The famous Dick and Jane books that taught millions of...
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Dec.10.2008
Hi all,
It's been forever and a day since I wrote an entry here. I'm still trying to figure out how to hook my regular blog into here so all I have to do is write once and it appears in the different places. :) so if anyone has the technical expertise to help me with this, I would be forever...
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Dec.10.2008
I've been tossing around a couple of ideas about what I think should be done for the publishing industry that currently seems to be one heck of a sinking ship. Here is my distillation of those ideas. Before I get started, I want to express my sympathies for everyone who has been or is going to be...
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Dec.09.2008
I finally landed a book contract. Well, my agent actually landed the contract and I wrote the book.
It was a long and uncertain road. And it has not been an easy since I signed. But enough about that. What concerns me today is the bleak reports about our shrinking newspaper industry, financially...
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Dec.05.2008
Writers, beware. The recession has come home to spend the holidays with us.
Garnered from diverse sources:
"Irwyn Applebaum, publisher of Bantam Dell, an imprint that publishes authors including Dean Koontz and Danielle Steel, and Steve Rubin, publisher of Doubleday Publishing Group, which...
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Dec.04.2008
Walking through Wal-Mart last night, I took a rare trip through the book department, nestled as it is between two checkout lines in the only part of the store less desirable than the restrooms. Location aside, as I waded through the rows and rows of what most of my friends snobbishly call trash...
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