Author: Scott McKenzie

RIP Bo

My obsession with guitars is well known, so you won’t be surprised that I was incredibly disappointed yesterday to see the news that Bo Diddley had passed away at the age of 79. The New York Times has a very good overview of the man and his career here. I had been fascinated with metal…

No Good Deals on eBay

I’m afraid that eBay has been letting me down lately. I used to entertain myself by perusing the Books section and examining the auctions where someone was selling their manuscript or life story. I would go to the Books section, search without selecting any of the categories (so you basically get every single book related item on the site), and…

Nice Rant to Start the Day

Here’s a good bit of ranting about poetry editors from The Buffaloe Pen. Nice way to inject some venom and energy into your Monday morning. [via Literary Rejections on Display.]

Jonathan Miles’s debut novel, Dear American Airlines gets a good review from Richard Russo in the New York Times. I’m about halfway through this quick novel and will have more about it later. But for now, I just wonder what the airline’s PR department thinks about it. Granted, a literary novel isn’t exactly going to…

Answer-Thon

Jonathan Lyons of Lyons Literary is hosting an answer-thon at his blog. Lots of good info on pitching multiple projects at once, agents expectations of authors, and disappearing agents. Good stuff.