Dec
30
How to sell your book in 2010. Part 1:
December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Wake up! It’s 2010! Ok, it’s not quite 2010, but by the end of the week it will be. Have you located your shiny new resolution that you left under that pile of crumpled up gift wrapping and empty Frangelico bottles?
Since we will all be finishing our book proposals or novels this year, some apparently […]
Dec
23
Using the decade’s gravity to hurl oneself into action…
December 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Screw writer’s block, my problem is that I just can’t find a second to write. I won’t go into the sordid details of my seasonal time problem, but I will present you with some of the advice that I’ve bumped into on this subject. I plan on absorbing some of this wisdom over the holidays […]
Dec
16
Getting inebriated on books…
December 16, 2009 | Comments Off
There’s a lot of book stuff online and it helps if someone curates it. Here’s my attempt for you for the week:
More intelligent perspectives on the print and digital divide, this time from Loud Paper:
The future of traditional print publishing is, well, no future at all. The model has long since morphed, leaving books, magazines, […]
Dec
9
Sarah Palin Is Probably Excellent at Killing Zombies
December 9, 2009 | Comments Off
In the wake of the ever-frantic and pretty darn genius Nanowrimo (30 days and nights of literary abandon!), let’s see what else is going on out there in the writer’s freakshow. How about Slate’s “write like Sarah Palin” contest? With lines like “The Snow Machine Pummeled Through the White-Dusted Plain Like a Jubilant Beaver” how […]
Dec
2
Going Rogue, Bird by Bird
December 2, 2009 | Comments Off
December is the month for snarkiness and sarcasm. This is how most of us survive the holidays. In light of this, let’s enjoy a particularly wise-ass Mark Morford column that makes delicious fun of Sarah Palin’s book:
Top 10 uses for “Going Rogue”
You have found/run over a copy of Sarah Palin’s “book.” Now what?
By Mark Morford, […]