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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Literary mags
When literary agent Jenny Bent was the guest on the Yahoo Forum TWLAuthorTalks last week, someone asked her what literary journals a writer should target to help build his/her reputation. The journals Jenny listed are: Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Indiana … Continue reading
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The aliens have landed????
No joke! As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Science
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When he said “evil” . . .
I thought it was, maybe, a cutesy nickname for a kinda reckless guy who’d bumped his noggin too many times, ya know, like Evel Knievel, only instead of jumping a bike over a canyon he’d just never listened when his … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
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Pitch slam AND pitch clinic!
It’s big bonus time for writers! Starting Monday, July 12, literary agent Kristin Nelson will be the guest at TWLAuthorTalks. Not only will you be able to ask her questions about the writing biz, but she will also be critiquing … Continue reading
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Practicing for the weekend . . .
Ha. The truth is, he’s always this laid back. Well. Except when he’s up to his devilment. Have I mentioned the 1-pound bag of lentils I found torn open and scattered all over my living room? Technorati Tags: Friday catblogging
Posted in Cats, Friday catblogging
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More on literary vs. popular novels
From Michael at 2Blowhards, the transcription of a speech by novelist Richard Wheeler. Wheeler notes that the novels “we call classics . . . were largely written for ordinary people, not educated elites” and then offers this explanation for the … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
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Another reason not to drink the stuff
Diet Coke, Mentos, mix them, sploosh. Technorati Tags: Diet Coke, Mentos
Posted in Pop Culture, Science
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Ignore what you read
A few days ago I blogged about Newsweek‘s lame-acre retraction of a story they published 20 years ago. The story claimed unmarried women over 40 were more likely to die by a terrorist attack than find a husband. The claim … Continue reading
Pitch madness
I’m on a handful of Yahoo forums for writers. One of them is TWLAuthorTalks, owned by Dorothy Thompson. I joined the list not long ago when I read on another list that she’d invited an agent, Jessica Faust of BookEnds, … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
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It’s not a watchamajigger after all
It’s a captcha. Isn’t it a relief to find out something has a name? Not that “secret code word” doesn’t work in a pinch . . . Brought to you, btw, courtesy of the Wordcraft “word of the day.” Technorati … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Internet
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