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Dale Estey's Blog
November 23, 2009
- Ignore the fact that this discusses Sarah Palin and whatever you think of her politics. The breakdown of the way a book makes money is interesting. THE BOOKGoing Rogue is going gangbusters, and it looks like both Palin and her publisher, HarperCollins, are going to make some serious money off of it. According to industry insiders, Palin got a $7 million advance for her book. She’s earning ...
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November 23, 2009
- We asked Penguin Group authors to tell us which books they are giving, and which books they'd most like to receive this holiday season. Our inboxes were immediately flooded with emails about books they can't wait to share with their loved ones—books for all ages, new and old, from publishers large and small. Find out which books your favorite writer is giving to family and friends this ...
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November 23, 2009
- If there is indeed some missing pages from Kafka's infamous Letter To His Father, this would be startling indeed. Did he remove them (then whatever might they say) or did his mother, or did Brod?Franz Kafka Israeli heir: More Kafka works stashed in Swiss vault Parts of Franz Kafka's literary estate are being kept in a safe in a Zurich bank, and they too are owned by Chava Hoffe, the ...
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November 22, 2009
- The other evening I was walking downtown. A street person approached, asking for money. He then added: "You look like a writer." I asked why he said that. He said he was "prescient". I certainly was taken by surprise and did open up my purse. As I handed him some change I again asked why he said that. He said: "I already told you, I'm prescient. I'm sorry if I've offended ...
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November 21, 2009
- As I walked the harbour in Halifax I came across the following. Reportedly the largest and fastest sailing craft on earth. It is impressive from a distance and doubly so close up. V HNoMS Statsraad Lehmkuhl, a 95 years old barque, with fifty sails, three masts, and a solid old fashioned rig – system meets this challenge. A three months cruise in the North sea and the Atlantic ocean ...
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November 21, 2009
- As I hung out a wash the other day, part way through, a crow settled on the upper branches of a tree. A few clothes later, another crow, another branch. Some clothes later, a third crow but lower. Nearing the end of the line two more crows ambled across the sky, looking things over. I came in.
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November 20, 2009
- I luv bread - circuses not so much. I got to partake of a circus the other day. A national circus which is happening right across the whole country of Canada. The Olympic Torch parade. I presume it is still a parade of sorts, even though it is piecemeal and hodge podge as it wends its weary and much-promoted way from one coast to the other. It wended such a way through Halifax, and though when I ...
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November 18, 2009
- I had introduced a character and written about him for a week without giving him a first name. Or, more accurately - finding out his name. But the time came when the other character, who arrived with first name no problem at all, wanted to know the man's first name. A reasonable question for the woman and, golly gee, I bet the readers would be relieved, also.But.His name would not come. Last ...
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November 17, 2009
- I don't promote such avenues nor advise against. They exist (indeed proliferate), and I find this one particularly interesting. http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ An online literary publication type deal.Born AgainLadies and gentlemen, welcome to TNB 3.0! As you will see, the new site features four main sections: Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Arts & Culture. Each will be ...
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November 16, 2009
- Perhaps it is too much to ask (for me of myself, at least) to drastically change the method I write a novel. I embark on a thriller to make (I hope) some fast money. I anticipated more words at the end of a week (and I'm even thinking in the term "words", which I never do). I write in pages. My thousands of words are alien to my vision of the progress of the book.Still - happily - with ...
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November 12, 2009
- Has anyone, in the course of their manuscript, made a concerted effort to reduce the use of the word "and" by a half (or more). To do so is stating to look better to me.
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November 12, 2009
- Kafka partook of all three in Prague, though he felt the city was his prison. Kudos for mentioning that Kafka wrote in one of the houses on Alchemist's Lane (a book of short stories). However, a "tsk tsk" for saying Prague Castle was the setting of Kafka's THE CASTLE. It was not. Prague: Romance, revolutions - and beer Prague's culture, cafés and fairytale architecture make it an ...
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November 10, 2009
- By Leigh Anne Williams -- Publishers Weekly, 11/9/2009 9:57:00 AMNew figures from Booknet Canada show Canadian book sales were up slightly overall in the third quarter compared to the same period last year. The increases of 3.8% in unit sales and 4.8% in dollars were due to a big jump in fiction sales. Booknet Canada CEO Noah Genner said the quarter was encouraging. “It’s up, not as much as ...
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November 10, 2009
- Although I change my ways and means of writing to create a *thriller* for almost no reason other than the money (tough times abound), the old ways die hard (in fact, struggle with vigour).I approach 2,000 words with more trouble yet more pleasure than I anticipated.
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November 7, 2009
- Dear Felix, Please - no walls of "no writing," nothing of the kind. I write to Max and thus to you, too, and Max writes to me, and you are sending me the Selbstwehr and thus are writing to me, too. I am very sorry that you are ... [the ellipsis is Kafka's] It is impossible for me to write the word, there are no traces of it in your articles and therefore not in your thinking either. The ...
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