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- February 23rd, 2011, 10:32 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Bad book review leads to criminal trial
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1805
Bad book review leads to criminal trial
Love this story. In a little more than a week, a court in Paris will decide whether a law professor in New York committed criminal libel by publishing a book review. The writer who sued the reviewer has her book on Amazon. The geniuses who post Amazon reader reviews are having some fun with her boo...
- February 16th, 2011, 11:42 am
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Borders is bankrupt
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7722
Borders is bankrupt
Borders Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Good riddance.Borders Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection Wednesday and said it will close about 30% of its stores nationwide in the coming weeks.
- February 12th, 2011, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Habit: skipping parts or passages in a novel
- Replies: 53
- Views: 21780
Habit: skipping parts or passages in a novel
I see a lot of comments on this forum and other blogs of readers who say they skip parts or passages when reading a novel. Usually the skipped parts are described as "long" or "boring" or having "too much information" or "not enough dialogue." I don't understa...
- February 10th, 2011, 12:32 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Hiring a Freelance Editor vs. Going to a Conference
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10268
Re: Hiring a Freelance Editor vs. Going to a Conference
Please tell me you made this up, and this is not a real profession.bcomet wrote:a writing coach
If it is a real profession, I'm going to become one right now.
- February 10th, 2011, 12:30 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: THE GREAT GATSBY
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2703
Re: THE GREAT GATSBY
I read it every spring. It really is the best American novel. TENDER IS THE NIGHT is great too, and entirely different, both in structure and language. It's a difficult book that requires attentive reading. A real heartbreaker. The rest of Fitzgerald is average/bad. Lots of stilted prose that passed...
- February 5th, 2011, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Example of how subjective reading is...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3259
Re: Example of how subjective reading is...
I'm just surprised by the range of scores/content of comment/tact. I'm guessing this was a contest that required money to enter. I'm also guessing that results were determined beforehand. It sounds like stock replies/edits from a handful of the 7 dwarfs; Doc, Grumpy, Happy, maybe even Sleepy and Do...
- February 4th, 2011, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: advice?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2391
Re: advice?
Hey kid,
I'm not Nathan, but I just want to say good luck to you.
I tried writing a book at your age and got as far as three pages. It was a bad Sherlock Holmes ripoff.
I'm sure your book will be much better.
I'm not Nathan, but I just want to say good luck to you.
I tried writing a book at your age and got as far as three pages. It was a bad Sherlock Holmes ripoff.
I'm sure your book will be much better.
- February 4th, 2011, 11:40 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 823203
- February 3rd, 2011, 11:45 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Should Writers Avoid Being Reviewers?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11073
Re: Should Writers Avoid Being Reviewers?
I'm dumbfounded. Most every book review in the NY Times Sunday edition, the NY Review of Books, the Boston Review, and countless other newspapers, journals, and magazines is written by writers. If that blogger hasn't noticed, straight reviewers are a dying breed. And publications have always, always...
- February 2nd, 2011, 3:27 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: A painful but necessary book on writing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6644
Re: A painful but necessary book on writing
There's no such thing as a necessary book on writing.
I'm the anti-friend; and I'm free.It's like the anti-friend.
- February 2nd, 2011, 12:22 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Super Bowl XLV
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11336
Re: Super Bowl XLV
Hear that? It's the sound of the Steelers losing.
- January 26th, 2011, 9:02 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: JA Konrath
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11216
Re: JA Konrath
Joe has made $42,000 for himself so far in January.
Selling ebooks.
These numbers he puts up are crazy.
Selling ebooks.
These numbers he puts up are crazy.
- January 26th, 2011, 2:08 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Super Bowl XLV
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11336
Super Bowl XLV
Packers v. Steelers
Packers all the way.
If you don't have a god you worship, may I suggest:
Packers all the way.
If you don't have a god you worship, may I suggest:
- January 25th, 2011, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Professional Manuscript Critiques and Page Spacing
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10220
Re: Professional Manuscript Critiques and Page Spacing
Am I right in feeling like I got ripped off? Ripped-off, hoodwinked, bamboozled, swindled, taken, duped, cheated and robbed. I'm attending just one of the three days of this conference next week. I hope the conference itself is better than this critique. Try to get your money back. Spend it on some...
- January 21st, 2011, 2:57 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: George R. R. Martin
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7141
George R. R. Martin
I'm reading A GAME OF THRONES and liking it way more than I thought I would. The structure is annoying at first but starts to make sense all of a sudden. I like him much better than the Tolkien I remember reading long ago. Are the other books in the series good? What about his non-series books? Tell...