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ISO My Twitter Persona

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 11.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Project Runway, Twitter, Writing, Books, Book Reviews, Book Promotion, Youtube, Branding, Facebook, Top Chef, Books News

I'd just had an event at a popular L.A. bookstore. I saw old friends, answered great questions, sold a good amount of books. But that next morning I realized: I hadn't tweeted it.

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Off the Shelf and on to the Big Screen!

Regina Brooks | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Young Adult, Writing, HUnger Games, Fiction, Twilight, Teen, Harry Potter, Vampire's Assistant, Movies, Books News

Hollywood continues to bring out the movies based on popular YA books, because the guarantee of an audience is just too good to pass up.

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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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I Write With Dead People: How to Collaborate With a Corpse

Ben H. Winters | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Satire, Jane Austen Satire, Jane Austen, Writing, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Books, Sense and Sensibility, Bestsellers, Seamonsters, Books News

Writing with the deceased is not as easy as it sounds. For one thing, you're really on your own when it comes to publicity; our book came out two months ago, and Jane Austen has yet to turn up for a book signing.

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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

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 Alarming Decline Of Expressive Language, In Life and On Film

John Farr | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George C. Scott, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, William Holden, Instant Messaging, Sterling Hayden, All About Eve, Faye Dunaway, Ernest Lehman, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sellers, Best Movies by Farr, Burt Lancaster, Walter Huston, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Jenkins, George Sanders, Janus Films, Stanley Kubrick, Clifford Odets, Technology, A.O. Scott, Sidney Lumet, Humphrey Bogart, Criterion Collection, Preston Sturges, The Academy Awards, Writing, Al Pacino, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Double Indemnity, Tony Curtis, John Ford, Screenwriting, John Huston, Anne Baxter, Essential Art Films, Marcel Carne, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Walter Winchell, Bette Davis, Entertainment News

Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.

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Why I Don't Want to Be the Next Amy Tan

Celeste Ng | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Amy Tan, Ethnicity, Writing, Fiction, Chinese-American, Chinese Culture, Asian Americans, Race, Culture, Asian American Literature, Chinese American Literature, Books News

Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style. Because if a review compared me to Amy Tan on those measures, rather than on just our shared culture, I'd be proud.

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Yoga: From Annoyance To Grace in 90 Minutes Flat

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Balanced Life, Yoga, Writing, Meta, Ashtanga, Annoying Yoga Teacher, Inner Life, Yoga Teachers, Motivation, Students, Self-Conscious, Hot Yoga, Motivational Gravity, Yoga Students, Teachers, Yoga Magazines, Bikram, Living News

Yoga works, in spite of all the annoying teachers and students, myself included. All I had to do was roll out my mat, get on it and move. The rest would come.

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Anne Rice, Vollman, Books, Writing, Eoin Colfer, Douglas Adams, Harold Evans, New Books, Tobias Hill, Book Review, Daniel Goldhagen, Book Reviews, Lee Eisenberg, Memoir, Jason Epstein, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Books News

Here it is, your weekly book review round-up: Eating, Jason Epstein The New York Times The book is delicious, in its minimalist, essayistic way. But...

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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

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

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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A Life in Books

Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Kunhardt, Authors, Pat the Bunny, Lincoln Photography, Publishing, Huffpost Books, Lincoln, Books, Writing, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Life-Size, Family, Books News

I've never really been able to imagine myself in a job that didn't have something to do with books, which is how I ended up as the HuffPost Books Intern.

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How to Win Big at NaNoWriMo

Michael Ashley | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Print on Demand, Publishing, Book Publishing, Writing, Self-Publishing, Authors, Books, National Novel Writing Month, Writing Novels, Nanowrimo, Books News

One wildly successful program has helped thousands of writers get published. It's called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Every November writers are challenged to create a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.

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I'm Not Happy to Serve You: Authors and the New Publishing by Consensus

Wednesday Martin | Posted 10.31.2009 | Books

Read More: Wednesday Martin, Writing Process, Publishing, New Yorker, Publishing Industry, Writing, Bestseller, Writer, Alloy Entertainment, Publishing by Consensus, Stepmonster, Books News

I didn't become a writer so that I could be a market researcher who tailors my thinking and writing to the interests of the people who made fun of me in high school.

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Maintaining Your Writing Career

Andrew Zack | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Book Publishing, Publishing, Author Advice, Books, Writing, Publishing Advice, Literary Agents, Book Publicists, Publicity, Writing Advice, Books News

Your publishing career requires maintenance. And sometimes if you want the job done right, you'd better do it yourself, or at least keep an eye out to make sure it's getting done.

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Found On Twitter: Fake AP Stylebook

Twitter | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: AP Stylebook, Tweeting, Ap, Journalism, Internet, Writing, Twitter, Grammar, Books, Online Writing, Fake Stylebook, Books News

We know this isn't exactly a piece about books, but it is about writing, and we thought it was funny -- for all the journalists and grammar geeks out ...

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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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If It's Art, Must It Be Pornography?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Women, Children, Books, Writing, Media, Sexual Abuse, Strip Clubs, Pornography, Amazon.com, New Yourk Times, Art, Boston Globe, Reviews, Times Picayune, Eve Ensler, Strippers, Andre Dubus, Book Reviews, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Vagina Monologues, Books News

I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.

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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

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

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

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

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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Trauma And The Benefits Of Writing About It

Psychology Today | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Therapy, Trauma, Health, Writing, Narrative, Psychology, Ptsd, Writing Therapy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

Research by my colleague Jamie Pennebaker and his colleagues suggests that one of the best therapies for this kind of psychological trauma is also one...

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Storytelling Lessons From the Boy in the Balloon

Celeste Ng | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Balloon Boy, Falcon Heene Balloon, Storytelling, Falcon Heene, Stories, Writing, Tim O'Brien, Fiction, Books News

I'm not sure what life-lessons we're supposed to learn from this whole crazy mess, but the episode of the boy in the balloon tells us a lot about what we want in stories, and how to tell a good one.

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Laurie Lindeen: Motivated By MS to Create Art And Music [VIDEO]

Posted 10.20.2009 | Impact

Read More: Multiple Sclerosis, Art, Ms, Music, Writing, Impact News

Laurie Linden was only 24 years old when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, after finding she could no longer move her legs while walking to m...

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