Archive | August, 2008

Novelizations and Tie-Ins

Tod Goldberg writes an an interesting article on TV show and movie novelizations for the LA Times. Me? I’m hoping to write the tie-in that short-lived Emeril Lagasse sitcom.

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How Many Olympic Books?

I’ve been oddly fascinated with the Olympics recently. In past years, I kinda swore off the event because it just seemed like too many human interest stories and not enough sports. Certainly, it requires a tremendous amount of perserverance and hardwork to reach a lofty goal such as participating in the Olympics. But in previously, they [...]

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Point and Click to Your Own Reject Letter

  Anna Richenda provides a handy-dandy site that allows you to build your own rejection letter. Simply select the appropriate clauses from the drop-down lists and within seconds, you’ve got a snazzy new rejection! [via Literary Rejections on Display]

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Unusual Pitch Role Models

Ron at Galley Cat recently took part in a presentation on how writers can improve their pitches. Read the entire article about his chat here. The part of this article that really caught my attention was when Ron mentioned three prologues as effective pitches. One of his suggestions, Romeo & Juliet was definitely literary. But the [...]

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Slushpile Family Book Deal Announcement

It’s been a thrilling week here at Slushpile.net. The big announcement is that our patron saint of techie matters, overlord of gadgets, the guy who originally convinced me to write this blog, and the dude who actually pays the Slushpile hosting fees, John Biggs, just signed a major new book deal. Dial Press won a heated [...]

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Allegations of Rampant Newspaper Plagiarism

Jody Rosen at Slate beats down a Texas alternative publication with allegations of plagiarism run amok. In Dude, You Stole My Article, Rosen provides more examples of word-for-word duplications than you could count. Or, at least more than I could count as I’m struggling to get moving this morning. Some of you folks who are [...]

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Tyler Signs Book Deal

The cavalcade of rock star memoirs continues as reports surfaced that Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler signed a $2 million deal with Ecco, the HarperCollins imprint.

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Interview: Benjamin Wallace, Author

In The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, Benjamin Wallace combines the knowledge of a sommelier with an investigative reporter’s tenacity mixed in with a heavy dose of a Hollywood thriller writer.  Wallace’s work has appeared in GQ, Food & Wine, and he was the executive editor for Philadelphia [...]

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