Writers

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

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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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The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Prizes, Literature Prizes, Howl, Writers, Man Booker, Books, Booker Prize, Fiction Prizes, Great Writers, Pulitzer Prize, Authors, Overlooked Writers, National Book Award, Women Writers, Lolita, Faulkner, The Handmaid's Tale, The Great Gatsby, Literature Awards, Literary Prizes, Books News

This year is a good one for female writers; most of the major literature prizes have gone to women, though whether this is a fluke, a new trend of hei...

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Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Olive Kitteridge, Writers, Books, Herta Mueller, Female Writers, Wolf Hall, Fiction Prizes, Gender, Authors, Gender Equality, Sexism, Hilary Mantel, Women Writers, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Literature Prizes, Books News

We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

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Writing Self, Best Self?

Melanie Drane | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Poets, Writing Poetry, Poetry, Mfa, Writing Help, Writing Tips, Writing, Authors, Writing Prompts, Books, Books News
Melanie Drane

Through writing we may access our most alert, best self, and perhaps that's what makes the work so irresistible, despite the uncertainty of employment or publication.

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Stuart Kaminsky, Mystery Writer, Dead

AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

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ST. LOUIS — Prolific mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky, whose 70 books included one that the Mystery Writers of America deemed the best mystery novel of 1989, has died at a hospital here. He was 75.

Kaminsky had suffered from hepatitis C and moved to St. Louis earlier this year awaiting a liver transplant. But a stroke shortly after the move made him ineligible for the transplant, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday.

Both the Mystery Writers of America and Barnes-Jewish Hospital confirmed his death Friday.

The native Chicagoan also had taught film and film history at Northwestern University and Florida State University. He lived in Sarasota, Fla., from 1988 to 2009.

But he was perhaps best known for his books. His son, Peter Kaminsky, told the newspaper that the author grew up reading Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and began writing himself as a boy.

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Stuart Kaminsky, Mystery Writer, Dead

AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

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ST. LOUIS -- Prolific mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky, whose 70 books included one that the Mystery Writers of America deemed the best mystery novel of...

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Why I Wrote Dangerous or Safe?

Dr. Cara Natterson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

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Dr. Cara Natterson

I hope that parents find relief with Dangerous or Safe?. I hope that they read it and take a long, deep breath. I hope it changes a few behaviors, but more importantly I hope it affects perspective.

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Man's Attention at Attention

Anthony Zuiker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

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Anthony Zuiker

Instead of just writing a novel, I decided to pair it with a motion picture and offer a social networking site at the same price as a traditional book.

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Online Branding for Writers

Fauzia Burke | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Online Marketing, Web Marketing, Writers, Online Book Marketing, Book Marketing, Writing, Authors, Online Branding, Books, Web Marketing Tips, Books News
Fauzia Burke

If I were an author in today's competitive market, I would consider the time I spend developing my online platform and building my brand on the Web as an extension of my job as a writer.

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The "Ethnic" Book

Ru Freeman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Tours, Book Tour FAQ, Writers, Books, Ethnic Writing, Writing, Book Tour, Authors, A Disobedient Girl, Books News
Ru Freeman

The finishing of a book should be the beginning of a conversation rather than its end, and with that in mind, I'd like to share the three most FAQ on the book tour.

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Poe Finally Gets Proper Funeral

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

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BALTIMORE — For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary o...

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How Do You Make a Writer Kvetch?

Michael Wex | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

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Michael Wex

I don't complain because I'm unhappy. Writers in general don't seem to complain any more than musicians or painters or any other group of free-lance workers, they just tend to do it better.

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Sisters, Unhook!

Stephen Bayley | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

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Stephen Bayley

Greer, who regards the bra as "ludicrous", has had her polemic reflexes tickled by my new book Woman as Design, devoting an entire page of splenetic "comment" in London's Guardian.

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Writer Liu Xiaobo Release from China Demanded By Congress

PEN American Center | Larry Siems | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Censorship, Liu Xiaobo, Writers, PEN America, Liu Xiaobo Release, Beijing Writer, Writer, PEN American Center, Books, Pen, Chinese Censorship, Books News

New York City, October 2, 2009--Calling yesterday's near-unanimous vote approving a Congressional resolution demanding the immediate release of critic...

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Writers Should Think Like Bono

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

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Tom Matlack

The books of the 21st century will no longer be sold by an agent to a publishing house who tries to sell them to bookstores. The most successful books of the future will look more like a U2 concert.

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Writers Conference for Teens and Twenties? You bet!

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 09.27.2009 | Books

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Naazish YarKhan

Teens 'N Twenties Writers Conference (TNT) to be held Sept 19 in Indiana, reflects its dynamic abbreviation!

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In Defense of FREE: Why I Don't Care That Arianna Doesn't Pay Me

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Freelance Writers, Writers, Celebrities Talk Politics, Journalism, Blogging, Bloggers, Arianna Huffington, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

When you really look at the traffic the average site generates, you see the Web is actually a big lonely place. And without real traffic, you're just preaching in an echo chamber.

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A Writer's Morning

Erica Abeel | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Cyberspace, Procrastination, Lifestyle Satire, Writers, Equinox, Humor, New York, Living News
Erica Abeel

The biggest obstacle to the writer's productivity, though, is the gaping maw of cyberspace. Each post a gateway drug to the next.

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Believer, Beware "Gets" The Funny (And Poignant) Side of Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Fundamentalism, Religion, Writers, Books, Transgendered, Jeff-Sharlet, Religious Right, Comedy, Gay Issues, Living News
Frank Schaeffer

Believer Beware is laugh out loud funny, touching, irreverent and yet, in deeper ways, pays religion the ultimate compliment: it's worthy of scrutiny, debate, hate, and love.

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