GalleyCat referenced an interesting post by Arthur McMahon in which he expresses a bit of amazement at the fact that “Completing a novel didn’t change my perception of life like I expected it to.” Some commenters at GalleyCat claimed they didn’t expect completing a novel would have any change, they write for themselves, not riches [...]
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A Laugh at Lousy Book Covers
Posted on 10 February 2013.
A reader passed along this Tumblr account, dedicated to Lousy Book Covers. Now, obviously, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that, so yeah, maybe this one shouldn’t be included or that one isn’t that bad or whatever. But it’s at least a pretty humorous gaze through the results of ten minutes [...]
Get Off My Damn Lawn! Says the Internet
Posted on 06 November 2012.
As many of you know, November is National Novel Writing Month. To help folks blast through their 50,000 words in 30 days, GalleyCat has been providing writing prompts, tips, and words of encouragement. Most notable is this roundup where they collected two years worth of tips into a single post. This week, they referred to [...]
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British Author Follows the Money
Posted on 14 August 2012.
British writer Steve Boggan tracked a $10 bill as it made its way across America. Along the way, he met a variety of people including farmers, bankers, truck drivers, and other folks. In this excerpt Boggan sums up his 3,500 mile journey. Maybe I’m too much of a homer, but I cringed slightly when I [...]
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Are You a Results Person? Or a Journey Person?
Posted on 07 August 2012.
As I’ve been stuck in book finalization mode and promotion mode over the spring and early summer, I got behind in my blog reading. As I’ve been catching up on some of my favorite blogs, a particular post caught my attention. These are both kinda old, maybe you hadn’t seen it before, just as I [...]
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Countdown to Calipari Book?
Posted on 03 April 2012.
One of my favorite pastimes is guessing which celebrities and public figures are going to be next in the publishing queue. Maybe some day, I can get Vegas to start setting odds on my little parlor gam. So this morning, I’m wondering how long it will be for University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari [...]
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Lies, Damned Lies, And Publishing
Posted on 19 March 2012.
Scott and I have been discussing the Mike Daisey fiasco and something stuck out for me during his This American Life interview and, more important, in the reactions by various tech visionaries at various online outlets. “He’s a liar,” they said. “He’s a fraud.” “Me made us care about something that wasn’t true.” While I [...]
A Halloween Terrifying Ten Library
Posted on 27 October 2011.
[Editor's Note: In honor of the upcoming Halloween holiday, I turned to novelist and horror aficionado Stephen Graham Jones to make some recommendations on ten frightening books. He's a prolific writer whose All the Beautiful Sinners was recently re-released as an e-book by Dzanc Books. So stock up on some Jones and also check out [...]
If Only We Made the Money They Think We Make
Posted on 07 October 2011.
The sports world has been brewing with furor over bestselling author Jeff Pearlman’s new book Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton. Enraged by an excerpt in Sports Illustrated that painted the legendary Chicago Bears running back as beset with addictions, infidelities, and affairs, the sports nation rose up in ire against Pearlman. Most of [...]
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Amanda Knox Released, Can Book Deals Be Far Behind?
Posted on 03 October 2011.
With the news that Amanda Knox has been released from Italian prison, you just have to wonder how long it’s going to take before the book deals start flooding in. There are already Candace Dempsey’s Murder in Italy: The Shocking Slaying of a British Student, the Accused American Girl, and anInternational Scandal which was released [...]
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Fake Boobs, Insurance, and Girl Next Door Books
Posted on 30 September 2011.
Reality television star and former Hugh Hefner consort Holly Madison is getting a tremendous amount of attention for the fact that she insured her breasts for $1 million. Which, to my mind, is kind of like Rebecca Black insuring her Auto-Tuned voice. Both are synthetic, manufactured, and more the product of other people’s skill than [...]
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Errors with Categories
Posted on 27 September 2011.
As we work out the kinks in our new theme here at Slushpile.net, we’ve noticed that there is an error in that the category links are not pulling all the entries. For example, if you click on the Interviews link on the right, it only displays five results when, in fact, we’ve posted dozens and [...]
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Household Cleaning Tips from Chuck Palahniuk
Posted on 26 September 2011.
It’s not every day that you turn to a novel for household cleaning tips. Maybe you look at a periodical like Good Housekeeping or you flip through a nonfiction reference book. But then again, it’s not every day that your home turns into a crime scene. Luckily, crime is a rarity in the exclusive confines [...]
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Announcing John Biggs’ Bloggers Boot Camp Course
Posted on 24 September 2011.
Our benefactor, John Biggs, is pleased to announce our first web course featuring one-on-one time with him online during the run of the program. It’s a 12-week writing course with a focus on blogging and it should take you 20 minutes or so a day to go through the sections, videos, exercises and discussions.
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