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November 20, 2009
- "Books are like wines. You develop a taste for them, and everyone has, a unique palette." __Michael Pokocky 2009
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November 19, 2009
- An amazing news announcement from Worldcolor (World Color Press Inc.); world headquarters are ironically in Montreal right near where I live. Even more ironic is that I knew the founder who gave me my first computer. We met right here in Ste-Adele where he lived at a coffee shop named Poivre. Anyway I had to get that personal story in and on that note I will proceed. If you want to ...
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November 16, 2009
- Blyton, who died aged 71 in 1968 and has sold 600 million books, was a trailblazer. After training as a teacher, she got her first break thanks to Pollock, who worked at the London publishers George Newnes and helped her publish her first stories in 1924. But it was her own ruthless business acumen that helped her become the most popular children’s author of the era. via ...
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November 14, 2009
- I have been on a long journey heading toward being a published writer. Along the way I got so tangled up in the what if's, the fears, the how to's, the editing, the revision, the state of publishing and countless other worries that I created a lot of anxiety for myself. I almost quit on myself, which is not what I really wanted.I found a childhood friend who spent a lot of time deconstructing ...
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November 10, 2009
- Twitter Fav 'Shit My Dad Says' Gets CBS Deal ! http://pop.is/blb via popurls.com Curation: Well there's more authors, writers, screenplay writers [established or aspiring] entering the game daily. This could have been a problem if the corporate suits did nothing. There was this doom and gloom feeling being spread around the Net about things like print is dead, newspapers are dead, ...
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November 8, 2009
- "Nearly universal literacy is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; nearly universal authorship will shape tomorrow's."via seedmagazine.com "Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish. Before 1455, books were handwritten, and it took a scribe a year to produce a Bible. Today, it takes only a minute to send a tweet or update a ...
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November 8, 2009
- results from twitterdjcarne 11-08 14:07!!!NEW VIDEO!!! mood - from the album literary device, now on itunes, amazon... check out the video http://lnk.ms/3 ... http://lnk.ms/2xQ9rhelene_syre 11-08 14:03http://bit.ly/3wftis Artistry authors Books Contest Education Expression lines literary literature Love #Poetry Poets #prize rhymes Romancetangledwriter 11-08 13:50Tips for writing a literary ...
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November 8, 2009
- What Fell Apart, What Came Together Published: November 8, 2009 Nine poets — from Eastern Europe, America, Russia and Germany — write new works inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.via www.nytimes.com I remember that day and what I was doing and what that meant to me. My father had escaped WWII as a child and imigrated to Canada. The injustices of this world, and the ...
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November 7, 2009
- In Neil Gaimen's journal he writes this,"And finally, a link to Joanne Leow's blog. It was lovely to see her again, four years on, when I went to Singapore - it was a great interview, and you can watch us chatting about writing, what I'm currently up to, signings, and why I don't write the same sorts of things twice in a row, at the Primetime Morning site: here's part 1 and part ...
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November 4, 2009
- Documenting your brain on digital has its pros and cons. But after watching this video I am on the side of the con. The con is when your writing blogs for someone, tweeting for someone or facebooking for someone that someone is not you in the present moment. And the psychologists are absolutely right. When you are online and thinking your creating content in the "creative sense" ...
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November 4, 2009
- I thought this post was appropriate considering the conversations taking place on the Net, in the corridors of the great publishing houses and amongst writers. However I have also been very diligent in getting as much information as possible on these conversations. My source is the Net primarily. And I have clipped, linked to and written about the publishing world as well. What happened is ...
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November 4, 2009
- Cory Doctorow posted that there has been a leaked copy of the copyright treaty and here is what he says,"The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad."Read more...via Boing Boing ps. This is serious stuff so weigh in on ...
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November 3, 2009
- I love writing, but lately I don't feel to write. What is happening to me?At first I panic. Then I worry why I have lost interest.. Then I end up beating myself up so much that I never want to write again after I realize I can't figure out why I have lost interest. Then the dread sets in that I am worthless. This is the process I experience. I know deeply I would never quit writing. It is ...
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October 31, 2009
- If Hemingway were here today___wrote this last night in my journal while eating a triple choclate donut and drinking black coffee. Hmmmm! Really that line sums it up for me: sport, passion and patience__all can be referenced to the details of Hemingway's life.Think about it. If you don't have a sport to lose yourself in when your not writing, your dead as a writer period. No time now for ...
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October 30, 2009
- Why has John Le Carré left his publisher out in the cold? is the headline in The Guardian today!"The relationship between writers and their paymasters has always been uneasy, as the veteran author's move demonstrates."_The GuardianThis seems to be true historically! The article in The Guardian gives some famous examples. Now there is no loyalty, but as The Guardian suggests, ...
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