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Writing

Good Books On Publishing

February 8, 2007

On Writing Aspiring writers often seek advice about how to find a publisher or a literary agent. Unfortunately, most authors don’t know much about the book business, unless they happen to live and work in the New York publishing world. For the rest of us, who live in Omaha or Dubuque and don’t know many [...]

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How To Query A Literary Agent

February 7, 2007

Ye Olde Query Letter I loathe writing. On the other hand I’m a great believer in money. –S.J. Perelman Many large publishing houses accept only manuscripts submitted by agents. Many agents aren’t interested in representing unpublished authors. So now what? If you are an unpublished novelist, don’t bother a literary agent or anyone else in [...]

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Books Are a Hard Sell – washingtonpost.com

January 23, 2007

Never mind reading entire books. Who has time for that? Librarians these days are information specialists teaching information literacy. A Librarian’s Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell – washingtonpost.com

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Giving It Away – Forbes.com

December 20, 2006

We’re used to seeing books on, say, computer programming given away free online, as contributions to the Open Source movement, or as marketing to enhance the author’s stature (or Google rank) just before the publication of his next non-free book. You don’t see many novelists giving away free electronic access to their works. Cory Doctorow [...]

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Perils Of Plagiarism: Ian McEwan’s Atonement

November 28, 2006

Ian McEwan lifts and modifies a few passages and uses them in his novel, ATONEMENT, and poof! Another literary dust-up, for which he must atone. Eyebrows Are Raised Over Passages in a Best Seller by Ian McEwan – New York Times These cautionary tales of unintentional plagiarism seem to recur about once a year, with [...]

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