Are you a writer? Do you live your life with some part of you always removed, cataloging things away to be used in your books? I think this is a sickness every writer has. Writers are observers rather than participants. That makes them very strange indeed. Much has been written about this already so I won’t get into it here.
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What is it about these plastic-faced dolls that’s so creepy? Forgive the silly post today. But this was the image awaiting me when I came out to the front room this morning: the little Chucky doll, sitting on the futon, beckoning me into his sick, little world. It struck me as funny. Why was he sitting there just so? I
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As a new writer, you might be tempted to accept the erroneous goal of scoring a contract with any old house who will take you. Now there’s nothing wrong with that, per se, if you happen to be someone who would marry the first person who proposed offering a couple of kisses a week and a Christmas card once a
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According to this article from Columbia Journalism Review, there is a trend in publishing that’s growing: editors who don’t edit. Judging from the books I’ve been reviewing for work recently, I believe it–and have suspected it for some time. The problem seems to stem from the increasingly market-driven business publishing is becoming. Elisabeth Sifton at Farrar, Straus and Giroux is
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There was a great article recently about the changing face of Christian fiction in the New York Times you might want to check out. For my money, “romantic” fiction seems well worth some serious thought…
