Novel Hybrids

Posted by on Apr 29, 2009 in dish | 0 comments One of the highlights of reading Jincy Willett’s sly, entertaining novel The Writing Class were the gems she dropped carelessly along the way, the blog posts “authored” by the novel’s central character Amy Gallup, who was published too quickly and now endures the ignominy of college extension fiction writing classes to pay the rent and keep her flatulent Bassett hound,...
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#writerfail

Posted by on Apr 16, 2009 in dish | 7 comments As a writer still camped on the canyon rim across from PublishedLand, I’m very lucky to have landed a fabulous agent. A combination of research, timing, and luck managed to part the clouds and let the angels sing for me, and I assume that any writer still looking for an agent would be serious about making the right match. That means researching what they represent, reading their contracted...
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Newbery Update: 1920s

Posted by on Mar 14, 2009 in dish | 0 comments This year’s reading project is to read all of the books that have been awarded the Newbery Medal. After scanning the list, I realized that I’ve only read a dozen or so of the books, the earliest of which was written in 1949 (Marguerite Henry’s King of the Wind). So delving into the list at the beginning seemed a good way to tackle it. As I progress through the list, I’ll...
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Um, Not So Much

Posted by on Jan 22, 2009 in dish | 2 comments I was catching up on my blogroll when I found an intriguing link at Diana’s Diversions to this Publisher’s Weekly post on “The Book Loved by Everyone But You.” Naturally, I had to go and check it out. Amazing! Other people besides me don’t love everything loved by everyone else! In the spirit of full disclosure, a partial list of books other people adore that I...
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If Twilight Were…

Posted by on Dec 17, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Okay, this is very, very mean, but very, very funny. Check out cracked.com’s “If Twilight Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest.”Yes, I have just committed tweenage fangirl hara-kiri, but it made me laugh. What they said.
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