Best Blogs 2008
February 13, 2008
- So what if you’re not a scientist? you may be thinking. Hundreds of thousands of people could make the same claim: lawyers, social workers, pastry chefs; stockbrokers, carpenters, newspaper reporters; race car drivers, kindergarten teachers, and on and on.But I write science thrillers. My debut novel FREEZING POINT, which Berkley Books will be publishing in October ‘08, is about a solar ...
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February 12, 2008
- Until now, the first known recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his thunderous poem “HOWL” was thought to have occurred in Berkeley, Ca. on March 18, 1956. John Suiter, as announced in today’s edition of the Portland, Oregonian, while researching a biography of poet Gary Snyder in the Hauser Library at Reed College (Portland, Or.), has uncovered an even earlier recording dated February 14, ...
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February 5, 2008
- Well. Two issues: Harry Potter, and print-media books sections. Then, a link or two. First: If you don't respect what J.K. Rowling has done with the Harry Potter series -- which I think of as one very long novel published in seven installments -- I suggest you reconsider it.What other book has ever grown up with its readers over such a spread of time? What other book has ever influenced so ...
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January 21, 2008
- As many people who write books are wont to do, I was on Amazon.com not long ago. But I wasn’t checking on rankings or anything. In fact, I was looking to find remaindered copies of a couple of my books, to buy in volume.There were no one-cent-plus-$3.99-shipping deals, but I happened onto a song called “Ben Fong-Torres.”Say what? But there it was. Amazon offers mp.3 downloads, so the song ...
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January 13, 2008
- Every writer knows that a good query letter is crucial in getting a manuscript read by an agent, which is the first step in getting an offer for representation. This is the query I sent for MIDORI BY MOONLIGHT. This letter elicited a lot of requests from agents for the full manuscript and eventually I did sign with an agent who ended up getting me a two-book deal with St. Martin’s. In brackets ...
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January 1, 2008
- I've never written a blog entry. I don't really know what blogs are. Confessions? Random thoughts? Stuff you later regret saying in a public forum of strangers? Why do people have blogs? To reveal their unconscious thoughts raised into consciousness? To spout about any little thought that comes to mind and capture it before it floats aware forever like exhaled breath, or hayweed or dandruff? ...
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December 10, 2007
- A writer friend said the other day that he wondered why writers would blog. “I mean, they write for a living,” he said. “Why would they want to write when they don’t have to? Or are not getting paid for it? It seems pretty pointless.” My problem with blogging has never been so much about not getting paid for it; it’s about a lack of time! I am lucky to have an open invitation to put ...
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