March 2011
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Food for thought: “Angry Birds was the 52nd game that Rovio made. They made 51 games *before* their “overnight” success with Angry Birds.”
Don’t give up.
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“It wasn’t that I sat down one day and decided to write a book about...”
– from One Kiss is Never Enough, an essay by Claudia Sternbach
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In celebration of Claudia Sternbach’s Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses, which is being published next week, StyleSubstanceSoul wants you to share your memorable kisses! Just send a couple of sentences about a kiss that was meaningful to you, a kiss that you’re still longing for, your favorite quote or lyric about kissing – anything kiss-related! (Please, no photos of Gene Simmons, though.)...
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Woohoo! Politics and Prose has found a buyer!
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Listening to Undraland by Valdimar (streaming free... →
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“Timothy Schaffert is among the legions of authors who aren’t, I think, nearly as...”
– from Heartland of Darkness: Timothy Schaffert’s Midwestern Trilogy, a review essay by Emily St. John Mandel
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Turn a Payphone into a Library →
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WatchWhoa, mama. Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra.
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“I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.”
– Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932—March 23, 2011)
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“Though I grew up in the landlocked Midwest, I feared drowning. I failed my...”
– Read Timothy Schaffert’s full guest post at Carolyn Turgeon’s lovely mermaid blog!
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“I know I’m supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books....”
– Julianna Baggott in her HuffPo article, “Novelist Walks Into a Bar or Facebook or Wherever”
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Just one week left to request a copy of George Rabasa’s forthcoming novel Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb via LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers! Don’t you love that cover?
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“I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average...”
– Jerzy Kosinski (via libraryland)
Do you know your audience?
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Botched & Ecstatic: Some Upcoming Events →
See what tasty stuff Unbridled author Colin Dickey’s (author of CRANIOKLEPTY) got cooking:
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Some Upcoming Events:
April is the cruelest month, particularly if you find listening to me read cruel. I’ll be giving a few different readings at a few different excellent venues, to whit:
On Saturday, April 9, I’ll be reading along with the extremely excellent Amina Cain and...
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“1. Sometimes music is needed.
2. Sometimes silence.
3. This is probably...”
– Beautiful stuff from Alexander Chee’s blog.
