Feb 28
Ask Men interviews acclaimed TV show writer Tracy McMillan “McMillan found herself at the center of much controversy this week after she published a story on The Huffington Post explaining to women why they’re not married. The answer, for those 35 year olds who wake up one day shocked that they’re still single, is that …
Feb 27
The Newport Beach Independent features a wonderful review of This Vacant Paradise by Victoria Patterson: “Patterson can also be proud of her rich descriptions of the beautiful physical surroundings in Newport Beach. An ironic contrast at times to the man-made ugliness that Patterson populates it with. Among my favorite descriptions were of the ever-present, yet …
Feb 26
Book Adaptations: Books To Be Made Into Movies This Year: At the Oscars this year, several books-and-now-they’re-films will get nods, from The Social Network (loosely based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires, which was loosely based on the lives of the smooth-cheeked geniuses behind Facebook) to True Grit (read Charles Portis’ novel! Really, just do …
Feb 24
The 5 Secrets to EBook Publishing Success by Mark Coker, featured on Write Online: “In the old print world, if your book didn’t sell well within the first few weeks of release, it was forced prematurely out of print. That’s sad, because sometimes it can take months or years before a book connects with its …
Feb 23
Jennifer Tyler: A Conversation With Victoria Patterson: Here’s an excerpt: “Titles are so difficult. When my agent started shopping the novel, it went out with the title Nobody’s Daughter–because of Ether and her father’s relationship. But then I found out Courtney Love’s comeback album had that same name (and a song with that title). Although …
Feb 21
The Nervous Breakdown featuring Author Victoria Patterson and her debut novel This Vacant Paradise: “VICTORIA PATTERSON is the author of Drift, a collection of interlinked short stories, which was a finalist for the California Book Award and the 2009 Story Prize. Her debut novel, This Vacant Paradise — which Alice Elliott Dark describes as a modern-day …
Feb 20
Check out this thought-provoking article by Ben H. Winters (Sense and Sensibility) about the difference between rating books and light bulbs: http://huff.to/hDFaD6
Feb 17
3 WordPress Tools To Put Your Book in Browsers: At the Tools of Change conference, a number of tools were introduced that publishers and writers can use to put a book online with WordPress–publishing your book in a browser.
Feb 17
Great new review of ‘Marry or Burn‘ by Valerie Trueblood: http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=13438
Feb 15
Here’s a first advance review of This River (March 2011, Counterpoint) by acclaimed author James Brown: http://addiction-dirkh.blogspot.com/