No Nonsense Writing Advice from Computer Guru
Dave Taylor is a computer whiz who answers questions about techie matters such as shell script programming, Unix topics, Linux techniques, Mac OS X, cascading style sheets, and HTML among any other computer thing you can dream up off the top of your head. But here, he answers a viewer’s question about writing a book.…
continue readingAmazon’s Hall of Fame
I learned about this through the fine website MobyLives, which you can check out here. Amazon posted their Hall of Fame of Authors. Now before folks get crazy debating the merits of this author or that author, let’s point out that Amazon calculated their Hall of Fame purely based on sales totals. So maybe it…
continue readingIn Memory of Evan Hunter
More on this later, but the short news is that Evan Hunter, best known for his books written under the name Ed McBain, passed away at the age of 78. Sad news of a hugely influential author who “virtually invented the American police procedural with his gritty 87th Precinct series featuring an entire detective squad…
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Publishers Lunch picked up a report out of Albany, New York about a thieving, bottom-feeding, scum “agent” and “publisher.” The Times-Union reported yesterday that Martha Ivery, 56, of Catskill was charged with mail fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and fraud in connection with an access device, all felonies. Ivery faces up to 20 years in prison and…
continue readingCover Art Similarities
The New York Times has an interesting article on what happens when two book covers have similar, or even identical, photographs. This article also explains a little about the behind-the-scenes activities that go into designing a book cover. “Most book designers turn to stock-photography agencies. Top agencies charge $1,200 to $1,500 a photograph, and twice…
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