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eReaders Through The Eyes Of Thriller Writers

The New York Times | PETER WAYNER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Lee Child, Kindle, Novels, Reading, Thrillers, Ereaders, Writers, Joseph Finder, Thriller Writers, Writing, Authors, Ebooks, Books, Amazon, John Updike, Fonts, Books News

What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...

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The Story of Another Manual Typewriter's Journey

Carol Hoenig | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Olivetti Typewriter, Barbie, Writing, New York Times, Upstate New York, Smith & Corona, Passion, Long Island, Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer, Writers, Authors, Books, Typewriters, Manual Typewriters, Books News
Carol Hoenig

When other girls were asking for Barbie dolls, I was wishing for a typewriter, one that would actually tap out a world of my own creation.

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In Defense of the Weenie Roast

Amelia Gray | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Women Writers, Sexism, Writers, Publishers Weekly, Gender Discrimination, Authors, Female Authors, Books, Best Books, Best Books of 2009, Books News
Amelia Gray

Assumptions that the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009 emerged from the hazy cigar smoke of an old boys' club are likely misguided.

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Four Reasons You Will Never Get Published

Michael Ashley | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Publishing, Fastpencil, Writers, Technology, Books News
Michael Ashley

You don't know the right people and traditional publishers don't believe your book will ever sell. Fortunately for you, the publishing industry is in transition and you might have a chance.

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Why Do Writers Write?

Mark Coker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Future of Publishing, Nanowrimo, Future of Books, Books, Writing, Ebooks, Writers' Brains, Writers, Brains, Brain Chemistry, Dopamine, Self-Publishing, Books News
Mark Coker

Writers are artists, and artists are compelled to express themselves, even if only to an audience of one.

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The Best Writing Tips Ever

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Howl, Writing Teacher, Writers, Writing Tips, Writing, Meditation, Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Books News

I've been in publishing for more than 20 years, I've attended my fair share of writer's conferences and workshops, and in my experience, the poet Alle...

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Sick of Sarah Palin's Book? Let's Talk About Writing And The Writers' Writer

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Writing, Literary Prizes, Best Writing, Best Writers, Writer's Writers, Slidepoll, William Gass, Paul Bowles, Henry Green, Barry Hannah, Jane Bowles, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Flannery O'Connor, George Saunders, Alice Munro, Books News

These last two weeks seem to be all about books by non-writers and we felt it was time to change the conversation. We asked writers--colleagues and fr...

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Mary Karr Interview: "Lit" Part II

Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Writing Memoir, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Bestsellers, Catholicism, Cherry, Lit, Writers, Melville, Interview, Writing, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Memoir, Author Interviews, Books, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Memoir, Books News

The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...

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Great Author Interviews With Barbara Kingsolver, Sapphire, and Mary Karr(AUDIO)

npr.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver the Lacuna, The Lacuna, Writers, Books, Writing, Mary Karr Lit, Precious, Lit, Authors, Npr, Sapphire Push, Sapphire, Radio, Push, Author Interviews, Mary Karr, Books News

NPR has a host of great author interviews every week, and we thought we'd bring you the best of the recent ones. Listen below for three really great o...

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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Tips

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Anne Rice, John Wray, Writers, Junot Diaz, Books, Writing, Writing Strategies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Writing Techniques, Nicholson Baker, Edwidge Danticat, Colum McCann, Laura Lippman, Authors, Kate Christensen, Richard Powers, Writer's Block, Orhan Pamuk, Writing Tips, Dan Chaon, Russell Banks, Hilary Mantel, Writing Secrets, Amitav Gosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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This Writer's Life: Why Write Memoir When Fiction is So Much More Respectable?

Rebecca Walker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Irene Vilar, Writers, Writing Memoir, James Frey, Writing, Authors, Alice Walker, Books, Memoir, Fiction, Memoirists, Books News
Rebecca Walker

I love the form and feel it is mine the way others feel poetry or the short story is theirs, but memoir is still seen as the first cousin of the tabloid, is it not?

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The Tide Always Comes Back

Jean Carnahan | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, The Tide Always Comes Back, US Senators, Ocean, Authors, New Books, Book Titles, Books, Beaches, Tides, Books News
Jean Carnahan

Conceived on the beach, The Tide Always Comes Back is woven with hope, humor and gentle reminders of what we know to be true.

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The Great Conversation Interrupted. Kindle, Annotated.

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Amazon Kindle, Margins, Kindle, Reading, Writing, Books, E-Books, Annotations, Books News
Gerald Sindell

When we buy a copy of a book, we own that copy. When we purchase, for almost as many dollars, a Kindle or other electronic version of a book, we have not really bought a copy of the book.

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Going Digital

Jean Naggar | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Going Digital, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Reading, Writing, Books, Ebooks, Audiobooks, Digital Reading, Ereaders, Books News
Jean Naggar

As we head at a fast clip into an unimaginable future, we need to keep a clear vision and a firm grip on what had meaning in the past. The desire to shape and share our stories is embedded in our DNA.

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My Failure at SEO: A Writer's Confession about Internet Marketing: Or, Why You Probably Won't Find Me Easily Online

Tamar Chansky | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Joan Didion, Internet, Writers, Marketing, Malcolm Gladwell, Ann Beattie, Seo, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Pr, Key Words, Technology News
Tamar Chansky

SEO is stealth, it's sleek; it's all about titles that are short, searchable and to the point. It doesn't cater to the clever book title or site name, it could care less about how erudite you are.

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Australian Author: The New J.K. Rowling?

The Wall Street Journal | DALYA ALBERGE | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Australia, Rebecca James, Writers, Australian Author, Financial Crisis @Y:Business, New Author, Authors, Young Adult Books, Beautiful Malice, Ya-Books, Books, Harry Potter, Book Deals, Frankfurt Book Fair, Books News

In a success story reminiscent of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's, Ms. James is a mother and first-time author who is going from nothing to becomin...

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Philip Roth On The Humbling, The Internet, And Nora Roberts

The Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature, Authors, Internet, Nobel Prize, Writers, Nora Roberts, Books, Writing, Modern Fiction, James Patterson, Philip Roth the Humbling, American Fiction, Philip Roth Interview, The Humbling, Philip Roth, Books News

At 76, Mr. Roth continues to explore the themes that have defined his work: the eroding of family ties; man's struggle with depression and loneliness ...

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I'm In Sales

Amy Dickinson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Ann Landers, Writers, Barbara Walters, Writing, Authors, Book Tours, Selling Books, Bookselling, The View, Books, Whoopi Goldberg, Bestsellers, Memoir, Writing Books, Books News
Amy Dickinson

What I learned during my book tour is that I was dying to have people actually read my book, and if they were going to read it, I was first going to have to sell it to them.

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What Will Your Book Be?

Eileen Gittins | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Publishing, Book Printing, Writing, Book Publishing, Authors, Bookstores, Photography, Self Publishing, Books, Blurb, Books News
Eileen Gittins

Capturing one's best images, thinking, learning and experiences in a book need no longer be something most people aspire to but never accomplish.

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So Did I Ever Tell You About the Squirrel?

Joy Preble | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Debut Authors, Writers, Advice to New Authors, New Author, Reading, Writing, Squirrels, Authors, Books, New Authors, Books News
Joy Preble

Debut author life is full of false starts and hesitations. Mostly you have no idea in hell what you're doing. You race across streets -- metaphorically speaking -- hoping you won't crash head first into someone's sedan.

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Talk to Me

Wednesday Martin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Jodi Picoult, Reading, Writer, Book Promoting, Author, Writers, Book Promotion, Jon Stewart, Writing, Authors, Oprah, Books, Readers, Philip Roth, Books News
Wednesday Martin

Selling a book, to me at least, feels an awful lot like flirting, and also kind of hand-holding, and also like being in an very committed relationship with many, many people at once.

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The Power of Books in Prison

Kenneth Hartman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Prison Writing, Writers, Reading, Viktor Frankl, Authors, Crime and Punishment, Prison, Reading in Prison, Books, Stephen Jay Gould, Jail, Montaigne, Books News
Kenneth Hartman

The first time I read Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward I was in the hole for inciting a riot. At the time, I'd served only the first ten years of my life without the possibility of parole sentence.

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You Had to Be There: The Role of Memory in Memoir

Liz Welch | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Cancer, Writers, Writing Memoir, Authors, Sisters, Parents, Books, Memoir, Books News
Liz Welch

I had been trying to write my story for several years, haunted by one friend's comment. "Great," he had said to me, drinking a cup of coffee in my kitchen, "another memoir about a mother who dies from cancer."

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An Awesome Book

Dallas Clayton | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Video, Writers, Kids' Books, Authors, We Love You So, An Awesome Book, Books, Children's Books, Books News
Dallas Clayton

I created An Awesome Book to try to speak to the idea of moving our amazing wild imaginary dreams just a little bit closer to those more tangible, simple daytime aspirations.

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Women Gather to Celebrate Reading in Nashville, Tennessee

Holly Goddard Jones | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Nashville, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, Writers Panel, Southern Festival of Books, Authors, Reading Groups, Books, Elizabeth Strout, National Reading Group Month, New Authors, Women's National Book Association, Books News
Holly Goddard Jones

I'm a southern Kentucky native -- grew up just a few miles away from the Tennessee state line, turned to Nashville in my growing up as the nearest "real" city -- and yet this weekend's Southern Festival of Books was my very first.

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