Miss Snark Agrees that to Answer is Divine
Longtime readers of Slushpile know that one of my biggest irritations is when editors (fiction or nonfiction), agents, journals, and publishers don’t respond to queries. Mistakes do happen and sometimes things fall through the cracks. I know some agents who haven’t responded to me about various submissions but in these cases I know that these…
continue readingLestat Joins the Church
Anne Rice, the foremost chronicler of vampires and the children of the night, the lady who wrote softcore S&M books under a psuedonym, has been converted. Her new novel, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is scheduled for release November 1. The book is about Jesus at age 7, and it’s narrated by Christ himself.…
continue readingUnusual Ideas Get Published
It seems to me that there are about three ways to get published these days. First, you just have to write an extraordinary book. That seems an awfully simplistic statement, but it’s true. Getting a book published isn’t a right, it’s not a guarantee, as much as I might wish it otherwise. So the primary…
continue readingBanville’s Thoughts on Winning the Booker
The wonderful blog The Elegant Variation has an essay that John Banville wrote about his experience leading up to collecting the Booker. Interesting piece indeed. Check it out here.
continue readingDrug Company Sponsors Novel and Hires Jayson Blair to Edit
This is so strange that I have absolutely no idea of its veracity. But it’s a fun story anyway that Bookninja picked up. Evidently, a novel is being published called The Karasik Conspiracy. The plot is pretty straight-forward. A group of terrorists attacks the United States by poisoning low-cost prescription Canadian drugs purchased on the…
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