Kristen Roupenian Is Not Cat Person
As an apt follow-up to both my previous post about a writing career’s sure path to poverty, as well an earlier post about how an unknown writer’s first short story in the New Yorker led to a seven-figure deal with an S&S imprint, comes “What It Felt Like When ‘Cat Person’ Went Viral,” by Kristen…
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NYT: Writers Will Now Starve to Death, Die
Unless they’re Ernest Hemingway. In this edition of “Why did I major in English?” or, “Why did I go to a liberal arts college?” The New York Times‘ Concepci?n de Le?n presents us with this bit of news: “‘In the 20th century, a good literary writer could earn a middle-class living just writing,’ said Mary…
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Olivia Newton-John Is Not Abe Vigoda
2019 has already seen the deaths of Super Dave Osborne, Mean Gene Okerlund, and Neil Young’s ex-wife. But not only is Aussie singer-actress Olivia Newton-John not dying, she’s also releasing her memoir in the U.S. this March. According to Publishers Weekly? “Don?t Stop Believin,?” published by Gallery Books, “will feature a new afterword by the…
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It’s time for more Tales of Kingshold
If you recall, earlier this year I brought you word of a new series getting started up by D.P. Wooliscroft, with that first book entitled ?Kingshold? (you can check out that review right here). ?I?ve just recently finished reading an ARC of Wooliscroft?s latest entry in the series, named ?Tales of Kingshold? which not only…
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ASoIaF Release Date News: There Still Is No Release Date
[Spoilers, kinda] Game of Thrones has more sex and acronyms than an orgy in an all-hands business meeting. But even less titillating is the fact that there’s still no release date for the final books in the A Song of Ice and Fire (ASoIaF) series?The Winds of Winter (WoW) and A Dream of Spring (ADoS).…
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