I write about finance, management and economy, my book “Money Studies” is out now.
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The juggernaut of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series could not overcome the overpowering effects of a global recession last year as publishers sold fewer books in 2008 than the year before, according to the Book Industry Study group, a trade association.…
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Revising vs. Editing
Writers revise. Editors edit. –Author, editor and journalist, Rhonda Crowder Good novels must undergo both processes. As to who carries them out on a work of fiction is a matter of subtle and often unconscious debate. Author, editor and journalist,…
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Helen Oyeyemi and Female Madness
“Female craziness is something I’m very interested in…how it can manifest itself, what it means, what pressures force someone into these behaviours. I’m pretty much obsessed with madness. –Helen Oyeyemi, The Times Interview I’m always taken when someone writes fiction…
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Literary Agents on Barnes & Noble and the State of Publishing
I think if Barnes & Noble folds, or something like that, it might be so devastating that we can’t get around it. If Barnes & Noble were to fold, what would happen to all of us? I mean, there’s no…
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The Filtering Consciousness of Your Characters
Fiction is not just the record of an event; it is the interpretation of the meaning of that event by someone. The biases and convictions of that filtering consciousness will express a truth the story cannot do without—and you get…
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Writing, Point of View and Mind on the Page
Point of View, like chess, is the simplest and most complicated pleasure yet devised for just the kind of mind that would take Creative Writing online. If Character is the casting call and Plot is what happens next, then Point…
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