Ahhh, the Free Rein of the Successful
Joe Queenan is one of my favorite writers and his New York Times book review of Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies by Greg Crister makes me realize how nice it must be to have free rein from editors. As aspiring authors, we often aren’t given room to run,…
continue readingStrauss Cover Story
Bestselling author Neil Strauss, who we recently interviewed, has the cover story for the new issue of Rolling Stone. Strauss travelled to London to interview Madonna and the piece, How Madonna Got Her Groove Back, describes her recovery from an equestrian accident, her work on the new albumn, and the various “Madonna moments” that people…
continue readingCall for Geeky Inclined Writers
Slushpile techie patron saint John is also an editor at computer publisher Apress and he’s “looking for a few good writers. I edit a line “after-hours” books – fun with Lego, gadgetry, etc. and I’m looking for folks who might get a kick out of writing books on the things they love rather then high-tech…
continue readingI’m Not Sure If You’ll Have To Pay The Money Or If They’ll Pay You The Money
Unusual item posted on eBay… I think the point here is that you have to pay $250,000 to get in on this action. Or maybe they will pay you a quarter million to write the story. I dunno. But “looking for a writer who is interested in collaborating on a true crime story. Invoves Fed.…
continue readingInterview: Brendan DuBois
I have some pages ripped out of an old Playboy magazine. They’re a little brittle from age and from all the moving around I’ve done since this 1997 issue hit the newstand. Looking at those pages now, the ads and cartoons are amusing, and amazing at how much has changed in just 8 years. Ads…
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