Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Some of these are dead on. The Grapes of Wrath really just is about "dirt and migrating." And I also hope Virginia Woolf stays dead.

Books become respectable for obscure reasons sometimes. I'm not sure that some of these reviewers aren't more right than professional critics and academics.

I'm a little annoyed that I only just found this site. I'm Shannon. I'm a PhD student in English at Berkeley, a fact which I'm sure only hurts my writing. On the plus side, I get paid to read, which is the sweetest job I've ever had. I used to write grants at another school, and that was not a sweet...

sarahdee: I really enjoyed this, but I want to pass on some advice that a wise man once imparted to me about parentheses: if it's important enough to get in the book, it's important enough not to be buried in parentheses. I excised all parentheses from my work for a time, and it was one of the best ...

Title: Mythical Creatures Genre: YA adult fantasy/sci fi/etc. (250 words) Jacob Marley was dead, and so was Jacob Abling. Their deaths were separated by one hundred and seventy three years, and, of course, the one was a fictional character, although the other, a year after his death, was also beginn...