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AUTHORS AND TWITTER Last Sunday's NYTBR featured an article by Anne Trubek on the benefits of tweeting for authors. In it, Trubek addresses the "common conception of 'the author'" as solitary and asocial, noting that a number of writers use...
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Thoughts on Publishing Envy In this week's Kind Reader column, Jessa Crispin offers interesting and helpful advice to an unpublished writer who is repeatedly asked to share in her/his friends' joy in their publishing success. Crispin reminds the LW that...
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A WISH FOR 2012 Three friends and I were invited to sing at a local solstice festival. The song we chose was Susan Werner's "May I Suggest." There was no recording allowed, so when I tell you that we sounded...
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DEAR BOOK BIZ SANTA, The holiday season can be a beautiful, joyous period of renewal and connection. It can also reinforce feelings of loneliness and inadequacy in sensitive, vulnerable people. This includes everyone, but writers tend to struggle in particular...
Dear Book Biz Santa #2
Dear Book Biz Santa, All I want for Christmas is a big fat change of attitude by the publiciity and marketing departments. (You know who you are!) It would be so nice if authors were not regarded with dread and...
Dear Book Biz Santa…
So we're opening up the floor again this year for your letters to Book Biz Santa. Just email them to him c/o me at MJRoseAuthor at gmail.com and I'll post them here. Everything will remain anonymous. Dear Book Biz Santa,...
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LOU READS This week, Lou Reed visited my local independent bookstore to publicize his new book, The Raven. Or that was why I assumed he was coming; after having seen him I'm not sure why he was there. I was...
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Dear Dr. O'Doherty, With the most recent extreme example of plagiarism all the publishing buzz at the moment (Q.R. Markham's Assassin of Secrets, published by Mulholland, turns out to be entirely composed of text taken from well-known published books), would...
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Writing on the Air My regular improv class is on hiatus, so to keep from getting rusty I recently took a trial class at another school. It was fun, and fascinating to experience a very different approach to the same...
Books I’m Giving for the Holidays #3
After seeing Merrill Markoe Marckoe on Jon Stewart talk about her new book I knew it was a perfect book to buy for all the people on my list who either love to laugh or need to laugh. She's hysterical...
Books (and Videos) I’m giving for the holidays #2
Have you become addicted to Downton Abbey? I have and so some of my friends are getting a boxed set - box coutesy of me - Season 1 of the show via the PBS website and the book The World...
