Reviewer Fun

Posted by on Sep 17, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Clever, clever spoofage going on at Amazon.com.uk. Check out the reviews for Bic Crystal pens sometime. Good Lord, that’s some funny stuff. Some excerpts:I Look Like an IdiotBy Janille ParryI thought I would add one of these to my order because it was so cheap. I received it and took it to work with me. Unfortunately, I was not prepared for the consequences of my actions. The pen itself is...
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Musings: On Writing

Posted by on Sep 8, 2008 in dish | 3 comments I heart Stephen King. I read the daylights out of Stephen King years ago, stopping when the books resembled (and weighed as much as) concrete blocks. But after reading, and re-reading, his wonderful portmanteau of a writer’s manual and memoir, I’ll probably have to revisit the “K” shelf at the library soon.King’s memoir is by turns hilarious, heartfelt, and as...
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No Book for You!

Posted by on Sep 3, 2008 in dish | 1 comment The teen reading world is dealing with Richter-level quakes this week ever since the news broke that Stephenie Meyer, of Twilight fame, has announced that she will shelve Midnight Sun, a retelling of Twilight from the vampire Edward’s point of view. Apparently, a rough (very rough, she admits) draft of Midnight Sun was posted to the Interwebs, and so now she’s put the book on hold...
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Whither High Concept?

Posted by on Aug 7, 2008 in dish | 2 comments One grace note to my Dream Agent smackdown at National was that she praised me for my ability to create a high concept story. I always thought “high concept” meant something truly groundbreaking and new, which meant that there was no way in Hades I’d ever figure out how to do it.However, Dream Agent explained that an ability to capture the essence of the book in a fresh way...
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Wreck This Journal

Posted by on Aug 5, 2008 in dish | 3 comments One of my main partners in crime, Katherine Garbera, is amazing at finding exactly the right thing. I’ve been whining about writing (is there any other way?), and she emailed me before conference to say that she’d found me a journal. Now Kathy knows that journals and I don’t always get along. I’ve posted on my difficulties with journal keeping before. I haven’t...
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