Free Book Taken
The copy of Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual has been claimed. Keep an eye out for more freebies in the future!
continue readingFree Copy of Everything Is Eventual
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…
continue readingThe Query Version of Pulling Pigtails
You remember when you were a little boy? And the best way to show you had a crush on a girl was to tease her, make fun of her braces, put bugs in her lunch, and pull her pigtails? The always enjoyable Miss Snark presents a query letter written by an author who is clearly still in…
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