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More literary insults…and this time it’s personal
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
A harsh review got an equally harsh retort this week, not from the author (authors are always told to keep quiet about bad reviews), but a clearly angry man who had helped to propel the novel into the international limelight . The book is Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road…
THE WRITER’S LOUNGE PRESENTS: P. S. BARTLETT
Originally posted on Author P.S. Bartlett:
THE WRITER’S LOUNGE PRESENTS: P. S. BARTLETT 02/02 by The Writers Lounge | Writing Podcasts http://ow.ly/Ijcyl
Here is my interview with Kathleen Kerridge
Originally posted on authorsinterviews:
Name Kathleen Kerridge Age 36 Where are you from Southsea, way down at the arse end of England, in Hampshire. A little about yourself; i.e. your education Family life etc I am a married mum of four with three children still at home and a lovely dog…
The Secret Use of Semicolons
Originally posted on Karelia Stetz-Waters:
I once taught alongside a professor who would give an A to any final exam that properly employed the semicolon. She gave very few A’s, so few, in fact, that I hesitate to bring up the secret use of the semicolon. People have enough trouble with the conventional use. The…
Author Quotes – Stephen King
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
Stephen King is best known as a writer of horror and supernatural fantasy whose books have sold over 300 million copies. He is also a political activist, advocate for other writers and free speech and the author of On Writing, considered among the best modern memoirs/guides on the writing life…
…the LUV of this fabulous WURLD-wide diaspora of authors on the net…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoXcRw9gJCA …a universal truth, ‘no man is an island’… neither is any woman… and may I posit particularly, neither is any man or woman who quill-scrapes for a living… the image of the writer ensconced in the virtual candle-lit garret is not so distant from the day-to-day reality of trying…
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