Boycott Writing Books
It’s easy for me to be suckered into buying books about writing and publishing. First of all, I wanna know about these things. Secondly, I can justify the expense by deluding myself into the belief I may find something worthwhile in their pages and I can discuss that nugget here on Slushpile.net. There are…
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The copy of Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual has been claimed. Keep an eye out for more freebies in the future!
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In my ongoing effort to clean up the Slushpile.net shelves of duplicate books, I’m giving away a free copy of Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. It’s a mass market paperback, in great condition, and contains stories that were originally published in The New Yorker, Psychos, and others. It also contains Riding the…
continue readingPredictable and Obvious
When you go to the movies, do you always select the Disney offering where the cute [insert animal here] goes home and finds his family? Or do you favor the sports movie where the underdog inevitably wins the championship? Do you like movies-of-the-week where all the conflict is predictably resolved and tied up in a…
continue readingLike a Clueless Software Boss
When I face lengthy airplane rides, I try to bring a variety of books. In addition to mindless entertainment reads, I bring at least one serious piece of literature along with one substantial nonfiction text. I find that a massive nonfiction tome with footnotes, endnotes, appendices, forewards, and afterwords gives me something to really dive into…
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