Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
Or, to use a term from horse racing, and they’re off! National Novel Writing Month begins today so that’s 50,000 words everyone. The clock’s ticking…
continue readingKate Moss the Poet?
This is a tad old, but I just found this via the excellent Syntax of Things… (By the way, the photo of a jack-o-lantern on the Syntax of Things page just cracks me up.) It seems that Kate Moss turned to poetry during her rehab stint. There were reports that the supermodel “allegedly writes poems…
continue readingJames Patterson from a Business Perspective
A couple of the blogs are talking about a profile of bestselling author James Patterson that appeared in the New York Times recently. The article wasn’t in the books section, but rather, the business pages of the newspaper. Patterson, who the article states made $40 million last year, “has had four hardcover books on the…
continue readingScreenwriter Sells Fiction Thriller
Guillermo Arriaga, screenwriter of 21 Grams, Amores Perros and others, sold thrillers entitled The Sweet Smell of Death and The Guillotine Squad to Atria. Laura Dail of the Laura Dail Literary Agency represented the author.
continue readingDispute Over Reports of Potter Returns
While no one can deny the Harry Potter craze and the amazing numbers it generates, there is a dispute brewing over just how many of those door-stopper novels are going to be returned. The Independent reported in an article on October 30 that there are 2.5 million copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince…
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