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. –Motoko Rich, Falling Sales Cast Gloom at an Expo Rich then presents the numbers, “Publishers […]
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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, Rhonda Crowder whom I recently interviewed on my weekly blog talk radio show, Book Talk
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“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 that explores mental illness, even more so when the writer is a woman, and of
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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 way that publishing could really continue. We’ve put too many eggs in one basket. This
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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 to manipulate that! How fun! –Dianne Orsini, Professor of English and Creative Writing Teacher My
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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 of View is how you set up the camera angles and which lenses you’ll use.
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I discovered Thrity Umrigar last year when I read “The Space Between Us“. It’s a wonderful novel about what the title states, the space between us, us being a well-educated Parsi mother and widow Sera Dubash, and her poor, illiterate housekeeper, Bhima.
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