Rowling preaches perseverance
Mega-gargantuan-humongo bestselling author J.K. Rowling preached perserverance to aspiring authors. From our jaded blogger perspective, it’s easy to roll our smug eyes and get snarky about a super successful writer saying “Keep going!” But the reality is that this is truly useful advice. And for the bazillions of fans, Rowling’s words might just be the…
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Hillbilly author appears on Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
Bestselling author J.D. Vance appeared on NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly last night. You can catch up on the video here. Vance, originally from Middleton, Ohio, became the default voice for rural, working class country folk during the 2016 presidential campaign. Many journalists saw Vance as a mouthpiece to explain the rise of Donald…
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Grocery store margins make writing look profitable
Geez, man. I had the obligatory grocery store job in high school. So I had seen first hand the narrow operating margins of grocery stores. But noted food writer Michael Ruhlman really lays it out in excruciating detail in Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America. Check out the following exchange Ruhlman had…
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When is the AL governor scandal book coming out?
Now that former Alabama governor Robert Bentley has, finally, gone the hell away, I wonder how long it will be before we see book deals arise out of the scandal. This informative article, entitled “How could Robert Bentley fall so hard? Now we know” by John Archibald provide several options. Sure, it could be the…
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We need to talk about Alec, but can’t
The discussion about actor Alec Baldwin’s recently published memoir Nevertheless perfectly encapsulates why reasonable conversation is impossible in this culture at the moment. First, of interest to us as writers… Focus now, focus. Baldwin took to Facebook to complain about typos in his memoir and smear the publisher for not editing enough. Typos are, indeed,…
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