The Blunt Instrument is an advice column for writers. If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to [email protected]. For early access to Blunt Instrument columns, plus a special subscriber-only edition every other month, become a supporter of Electric Literature on Drip! Dear Blunt Instrument, I’m a young writer who has spent the past three […] The post Is It Okay If I Don’t Care About Making Money from Writing? appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-30 11:00:37 UTC ]
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Holly Jackson answers our questions about her debut novel, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Egmont), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 07:49:12 UTC ]
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A new biography of crime writer H R F Keating will be published by Level Best Books in April. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 00:02:45 UTC ]
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Family! Secrets! Revealed! Watch Mira Jacob be interviewed by her son, then stick around and make a comic. * Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Good Talk and The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Her recent work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Vogue,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-26 21:15:34 UTC ]
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Even amid the chaos, you can find a quiet spot to turn pages. It may require some stealth. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-24 11:48:06 UTC ]
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This is Personal Space: The Memoir Show, with Sari Botton. On this episode, Sari talks with Alia Volz, the author of reported, historical memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco — about being raised by colorful hippie parents who ran an illegal pot-brownie... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-23 20:00:24 UTC ]
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Reporter Eric Eyre exposes the people and companies that flooded the state with pills. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-23 10:39:28 UTC ]
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Holly Bourne answers our questions about her YA novel tackling toxic relationships, The Places I've Cried in Public (Usborne), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 08:58:47 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired two works from behavioural economist Dr Sheheryar Banuri about making decisions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 01:52:13 UTC ]
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The 12-strong longlist for this year's Spread the Word Life Writing Prize has been announced, with the prize open to UK writers who do not have an agent or have yet to publish a full-length work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 20:48:32 UTC ]
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Writing doesn’t pay. According to a report released last year by the Royal Society for Literature and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, most writers earn below the minimum wage. The numbers are stark: two thirds of writers earn between £100 and £10,000. Only 5% of writers can expect... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 05:32:29 UTC ]
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Bernardine Evaristo's Booker-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) and Hilary Mantel's final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & The Light (Fourth Estate), have been shortlisted for 2020's £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 03:11:14 UTC ]
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Facing what it called "a significant decline in advertising revenues" as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Meredith Corp. says it's implementing sweeping pay cuts across 60% of its approximately 5,000 employees, suspending quarterly dividends and withdrawing the 2020 fiscal outlook it... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-20 17:45:12 UTC ]
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“Many” requests have been made by publishers about the possibility of delaying payments to authors to help improve cashflow in the difficult circumstances caused by Covid-19, it has emerged. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 15:49:24 UTC ]
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Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak and Roger Robinson are among the writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 11:07:07 UTC ]
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As small businesses around the country await funds from the landmark “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,” indie publishers and booksellers are having mixed experiences trying to secure this financial lifeline. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Candice Carty-Williams, Nina Stibbe and Beth O'Leary are among the authors longlisted for this year's Comedy Women in Print Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-19 22:33:02 UTC ]
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Poet Carol Ann Duffy and the Manchester Writing School have launched an international poetry project in response to the coronavirus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-19 14:30:11 UTC ]
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Once upon a time Ken Kesey wrote an endearing tale about a wily squirrel and a hungry bear. The unlikely picture book was one of two written by Kesey nearly three decades after his well-known 1962 novel set in a psychiatric hospital, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Who knew? Kesey—as well as... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-17 08:48:38 UTC ]
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Jenny Downham answers our questions about her latest YA novel, Furious Thing (David Fickling Books), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. 1. Can you sum up Furious Thing in one sentence? There are many ways a girl’s sense of self can be whittled away — this book explores what... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-16 09:06:03 UTC ]
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Orion has acquired the first book from Early Years specialist and playHOORAY! founder Claire Russell, to publish in e-book next week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-15 07:21:34 UTC ]
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