March 1st dawned dreary for us with yet another snowstorm. We’ve had more than 93 inches this season so far. More snow and ice is expected later this week and we’re starting to wonder if we’ll be able to dig the RV out in time for our next trip…
In case you’re a newbie, a blog is a regularly-updated personal journal that is posted online. Special software enables bloggers to post their comments instantly online. No HTML! Yea! Blogs have exploded in recent years because they make publishing online so easy and because they are usually of a more personal nature than professional websites. Blogs seem to attract the voyeur in all of us…
In many cases, writers tend to be introverts. We sit in solitude, our most beloved companions of the workday being our computers and coffee, laptops and latte. Our playmates are pens, pencils, and paper…
Is there a website where authors can post synopsis (what is the plural of synopsis? flying flock of synopsi???)?
Thought I’d check with you because you have so many resources at your fingertips, and because you do an awesome job.
Rose
After a couple years of no success in trying to market children’s stories, I tried writing an article for Boy’s Life magazine on the subject of photography. It was quickly rejected…
Is this weird or what?!
Mt. Ivy Press / Jane Daniel of Gloucester, MA – sued by author in 1991; $22.7 million judgement by the court
AND THEN
Last week, the author of that book admitted her Holocaust survival story was a hoax.
AND YET ANOTHER EMBARRASSMENT FOR THE INDUSTRY
Margaret B. Jones / Margaret Seltzer, author of Love and Consequences, which was to hit stores on Monday, has admitted her memoir is fabricated. Margaret’s own sister, after seeing an article in the New York Times, reported the real story of her upbringing to the publisher, Penguin Group USA imprint Riverhead Books. Don’t miss this one!
