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The Man with the Iron-On Badge Kindle-fied
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Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:00 pm
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“As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever dreamed up [...] leaving Travis McGee in the dust.” Kirkus, Starred Review My favorite, and most acclaimed book, THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGE, is now available in a Kindle…
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You Can Become a Kindle Millionaire, Part 14
Post from Lee Goldberg
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 4:49 am
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Joe Konrath recently changed the covers for some of his weaker-selling Kindle books and saw his sales shoot up overnight. He suggested that I do the same thing for some of my books and I am following his advice. I just changed the covers for my sho…
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Geoffrey Fletcher Wins Best Adapted Screenplay
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Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:00 pm
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Geoffrey Fletcher stands next to his Oscar backstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre. Geoffrey Fletcher won Best Adapted Screenplay for his adpation of the novel Push by Sapphire. He is the first African American screenwriter to win an Academy Award. Fletcher beat out favorites Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner who wrote the script for Up in the Air. Fletcher is also an adjunct professor of film at Columbia University and NYU.
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire was nominated in six categories and won two Oscars. The second Oscar went to actress Mo’Nique, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as an abusive mother.
You can find more coverage of the Oscars, including fashion coverage, on our sister site ShoppingBlog.com’s Oscar section.
Photo: Todd Wawrychuk/ (C) A.M.P.A.S.
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Why Should Writers be Social?
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Monday, March 8, 2010, 11:47 am
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If you haven’t already joined, you may wonder why a writer would be interested in joining something like Twitter, Qwisk, or Facebook. You also might wonder why a writer would want to start a blog.
In today’s socially networked world, writers have far more opportunities to connect with their target audience. Before we talk about opportunities [...]
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Distant Thunder — Nate Notorious’s response
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Sunday, March 7, 2010, 6:22 pm
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Nate Notorious is one of our young, early members who is back after a long hiatus. He began his return with this writing prompt response!
I watched as we drifted closer, We were on a boat drifting with no way to steer , drifting directly into a storm. This storm was no ordinary storm. This was [...]
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Mr. Monk and the Reader’s Choice
Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 1:51 am
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ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE has just announced the winners of their Readers Choice Awards for the best stories of 2009 and I am stunned, and pleased, to discovered my Artemis Monk story “The Case of the Piss-Poor Gold” made the list.First place:Mike…
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Why People Hate Dave Eggers
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Saturday, March 6, 2010, 12:00 am
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The Awl wants to know why so many people hate Dave Eggers. Maria Bustillos did a Google search for the most hated authors and what she found was surprising. While there were only two results for “I Hate Jonathan Franzen” (which is amazing, considering how annoying he is), there are 3888 results for “I Hate Dave Eggers.”
Part of the hate accruing to Dave Eggers is undoubtedly due to crab-bucket syndrome, which is when there are a lot of rivals, e.g., writers who are struggling after success in the form of TED prizes and screenplay commissions, and then one of them actually succeeds, and the rest of his fellow-strivers and former comrades attempt to yank him back down again. In the case of Eggers this is commonly depicted as not just envy, but more like a sense that the litterati just ought to have a better representative. Better, somehow, in some way, than this seemingly self-promoting impresario.
As well, a great divide opened between youngs and olds on the issue of Eggers when Where the Wild Things Are finally emerged. Us olds don’t just detest twee, childish sentimentality. We would douse it in kerosene and throw a match on it, if we could.
So who else inspires true hatred on the Internet? Well, there’s Elizabeth Wurtzel (89 results of online hatred) and David Sedaris, who clocks in at 774.
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J.K. Rowling Turns Down Oscar Invitation
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Thursday, March 4, 2010, 9:00 pm
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J.K. Rowling turned down the Oscars producers’ invitation to present the award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. Jo said that she’s too busy writing her next book to make the trip.
Rowling writes on her website, “You won’t be hearing from me often I am afraid, as pen and paper is my priority at the moment.”
The movies nominated for the screenplay award are In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche), District 9 (Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell), Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire (Geoffrey Fletcher), An Education (Nick Hornby) and Up In The Air (Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner).
Stephenie has reportedly accepted the offer, but it’s not clear who she will be presenting with.
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Common Grammatical Mistakes Part 2 of 5
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 5:40 pm
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Grammatical Mistakes in Writing
Part 2 of 5: More Homonyms
Last week we explored some homonyms and talked about how easy it is confuse them. We are going to explore some more homonyms today. Remember homonyms are word that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different mean ings.
Wear vs. Where and We’re vs. [...]
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Salman Rushdie Planning to Write About Years in Hiding Because of Fatwa
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 3:00 am
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Salman Rushdie is finally planning on writing
about the decade he spent under a fatwa of death issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The fatwa was issued because Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses.
“It’s my story, and at some point, it does need to be told. That point is getting closer, I think,” he told reporters at Emory University in Atlanta, where an exhibition of his personal correspondence, notebooks, photographs, drawings and manuscripts is set to open on Friday. “When [the archive material] was in cardboard boxes and dead computers, it would have been very, very difficult, but now it’s all organised,” he said.
Last year marked 20 years since the Iranian leader called for Rushdie’s execution, saying that his novel The Satanic Verses insulted Islam, Mohammed and the Qur’an. The edict, which followed street protests and book burnings across the Muslim world, forced Rushdie to go into hiding under police protection for almost 10 years.
We do hope he gets on with it, as we are most interested to read it. Rushdie’s next novel is called Luka and the Fire of Life. A sequel to the children’s story Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the book will be released in fall, 2010.
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WritAnon on Qwisk
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Monday, March 1, 2010, 11:06 am
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Last week, WritAnon was one of the first communities to join a relatively new social networking site called Qwisk.
We’re pretty excited about this site.
What is Qwisk?
Qwisk is a social networking site focused on sharing links with your friends. There are elements of the site that may remind some users of Twitter, but I think it’s [...]
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You Can Become a Kindle Millionaire, Part 13
Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, March 1, 2010, 9:25 am
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My Kindle sales for February we up a tick from last month. THE WALK sold 573 copies in 28 days vs 536 in 31 days in January. MY GUN HAS BULLETS sold 167 copies and THREE WAYS TO DIE sold 136. Last month, BEYOND THE BEYOND, priced at $1.99, sold 7…
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You Can Become a Kindle Millionaire, Part 13
Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, March 1, 2010, 9:25 am
Read more: Writing
My Kindle sales for February we up a tick from last month. THE WALK sold 573 copies in 28 days vs 536 in 31 days in January. MY GUN HAS BULLETS sold 167 copies and THREE WAYS TO DIE sold 136. Last month, BEYOND THE BEYOND, priced at $1.99, sold 7…
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John Grisham to Write Children’s Series
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Friday, February 26, 2010, 9:00 pm
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Bestselling author John Grisham is going to write a series of books for kids. The first book, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, will be published by Penguin Young Readers Group in May. Grisham’s agent David Gernert explained to Publishers Weekly why Grisham went with a different publisher for the children’s series.
“Since children’s books is a completely different area of publishing than adult, and since John had never experienced any publishing in the children’s area, we went out and spoke to a very, very small number of people we felt were particularly good at children’s books,” said Gernert, adding that Random House, Grisham’s adult publisher, was in the mix. “We tried to figure out who had the vision for launching Theo that most matched John’s, and it ended up being Penguin and Don Weisberg.”
The New York Times says Doubleday will still publish Grisham’s new legal thriller for adults, which will be out in October.
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