April 15th is fast approaching and the Tax Man expects his pound of flesh. Or, roughly 30% to 40% of your total body weight might be more accurate. But what does that mean for aspiring authors? Deduction opportunities. In the April 2006 issue of Writers Digest, Sue Fagalde Lick provides useful tax tips for writers. Swing [...]
Archive | March, 2006
Free Copy of Stop Breakin Down Available
Posted on 23 March 2006.
In the ongoing effort to clear out duplicate books from my shelves, and to spread literary cheer to our wonderful readers, here’s another free book offer. Stop Breakin Down: Stories by John McManus is a fantastic collection about people driven to the brink of endurance and survival. In the current issue of the Oxford American, some of the South’s best authors provide [...]
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Better Get That Book in the First Season
Posted on 21 March 2006.
Publishers Marketplace reported that controversial football star Terrell Owens signed a book deal for a memoir entitled Ineligible Receiver: The Real Story of My Journey from the Super Bowl to the Sidelines with Simon & Schuster. The book promises to detail the receiver’s two years with the Philadelphia Eagles, including explanations of his deteriorating relationship with Donovan McNabb. The [...]
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Scenes from Homer Found in Ancient Tomb
Posted on 21 March 2006.
CNN reported that scenes from The Odyssey and The Iliad were found on a 2,500-year-old sarcophagus discovered in Cyprus. The report stated that “in one large painting, Ulysses and his comrades escape from the blind Cyclops Polyphemos’ cave, hidden under a flock of sheep. Another depicts a battle between Greeks and Trojans from The Iliad.” Archeologists [...]
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Surely, She Doesn’t Mean Our Slushpile
Posted on 21 March 2006.
The wonderfully acerbic and incredibly informative Miss Snark describes three nitwit queries that came over her transom. Certainly, none of our readers would make such a mistake, but these provide a good reminder of what not to do when querying an agent. They’re also pretty damn funny. Claims of being the fist novel to explore [...]
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Practicing the Art of Imitation
Posted on 21 March 2006.
In a post some months ago, I wrote about Nicholas Delbanco’s great ideas concerning imitation of the fiction masters. In his essay, Delbanco argues that copying the greats can be an incredibly educational experience. I recently came across the same concept, this time in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the [...]
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Inspiration from the Dead
Posted on 20 March 2006.
Most of us have our own methods for seeking inspiration and story ideas. Some of us take notes in bars, some of us look for funny news items in the paper, and some of us utilize writing exercises to jump-start our imagination. But Bernice McFadden listens to the dead. The author writes an essay [...]
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Bountiful Publishing Opportunities on eBay
Posted on 20 March 2006.
For anyone out there with dreams of becoming the next Maxwell Perkins or maybe Charles Scribner, there are plenty of acquisition opportunities on eBay right now. For $700,000 you can purchase the copyrights for “three books. They are books on 9/11/2001. A story of courage under fire. One book is on domestic violence. A tragedy that [...]
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Conjure Up Some Demons
Posted on 20 March 2006.
I spent most of the weekend scared shitless while reading Stephen Graham Jones’ Demon Theory. The official release date is April 18th so you’ll have to wait a bit. But this is a book well worth marking your schedules for and counting down in sort of a demented Advent Calendar way. The book description from [...]
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Free Book Claimed
Posted on 17 March 2006.
Today’s free book has been claimed by an early bird in the Pacific Northwest. Thanks for all the emails. Keep your eyes open for more freebies over the next few weeks.
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The Oxford American Winter Reading Issue
Posted on 17 March 2006.
Just got a copy of the new Oxford American Winter Reading Issue and this thing is packed with great writing on every page. I was going to write an overview of the entire issue, but there is simply too much to cover in one post. The magazine’s website provides a great overview of all [...]
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They Just Don’t Appreciate Me!
Posted on 17 March 2006.
Bookslut points out a McSweeney’s explaining some Possible Reasons My Short Stories Are So Poorly Reviewed by the Other Members of My Writers’ Workshop.
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Vollman Goes Batty
Posted on 17 March 2006.
The fine folks over at The Bat Segundo Show scored a major interview with literary genius William T. Vollman. Vollman discussed a wide range of topics including Copernicus, the relationship between religion and science, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ptolemy, Intelligent Design, Iraq, live lived according to the “cash nexus” versus life in other countries, the Bush Administration as [...]
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Free Copy of Improbable Available
Posted on 17 March 2006.
I tend to accumulate multiple copies of books. Either because they are gifts, or because I travel somewhere and can’t wait to get home for a particular reference, but I have several duplicates lining the Slushpile shelves. So I’m going to be cleaning those out in the coming days. Today, I’ve got an extra copy of Adam [...]
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