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Mar31	Publishing 101 Jason Boog March 31, 2006 Know More: Publishers, Publishing Companies, Writing Resources 2.0, Writing Resources ThePublishingSpot reader Lara Kordic sent me a link today. Over at the Simon Fraser University Vancouver, the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing has put out a brand new book-- a comprehensive look at the publishing industry. From building dictionaries to publishing in China, this book has it all. The book is co-written by members of a publishing think-tank at the university, a group dedicated to setting out best practices for publishing. I admire anybody trying to start something from scratch, from this blog to Canadian university programs. Fledgling projects like ours won't always come up with the most elegant solution, but we always come up with the most innovative ideas. Go therefore, and read the book... Posted at 12:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar31	My Own Selfish Ends Jason Boog March 31, 2006 In this week's Village Voice, Michael Feingold fired off an anti-web screed couched inside a review of a stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. In true cyberspace attention deficit disorderly fashion, I am quoting his rant out-of-context (even though... Continue Reading Posted at 8:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar30	Five Easy Questions Digest, Edition Two Jason Boog March 30, 2006 Another month has zoomed by, and I hope you caught all the Five Easy Question-action that transpired this crazy month. You can learn more in five minutes with these writers than you could learn in five days with me, so... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Creative Writing MFA: Masters or Margaritas? Jason Boog March 30, 2006 In a happy turn of events, Tom Kealey will soon be featured in my interview extravaganza, Five Easy Questions. Kealey wrote the book on creative writing Masters program applications, and I'm looking forward to his advice for us fledgling writers.In... Continue Reading Posted at 8:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar29	We Go Nuclear Jason Boog March 29, 2006 Earlier this week, a nuclear power engineer emailed me. That's one of the most beautiful things about this job, you never know who's out there reading. James Aach has written a novel that takes an insider look at an awe-inspiring... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Blog and Newspaper Truce Jason Boog March 29, 2006 After our discussion about the war between newspapers and blogs, our buddy Steve Bryant just wrote about BlogBurst, a new company designed to syndicate blogs for newspapers. With this new service, newspapers can cooperate with the best blogs and improve... Continue Reading Posted at 1:03 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	One Last Crafty Digest Jason Boog March 29, 2006 Following Jeffrey Yamaguchi's interview, I put together one last digest with 52 Projects-esque sites for crafty readers. Need some ink-spattered writing advice? Visit Maud Newton, the good-book-spotting author. She's prolific as heck, most recently writing for The American Prospect. Feeling... Continue Reading Posted at 8:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar28	Stanislaw Lem Has Died Jason Boog March 28, 2006 Stanislaw Lem has died. Ever since I read his novel Fiasco, I fell in love with his Jorge Luis Borges-laced blend of science fiction. Every story was lovingly crafted, and it seemed like Lem had created a new set of... Continue Reading Posted at 2:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	More Crafty Links Jason Boog March 28, 2006 Following Jeffrey Yamaguchi's outstanding interview, I'd like to offer a few more 52 Projects-approved links for your artsy-craftsy pleasure. First up, for all the photographers in the audience, your waitress photos features a daily picture taken by an artist-with-a-day-job named... Continue Reading Posted at 11:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Part Two Jason Boog March 28, 2006 "I basically hated my job, I didn't have anything nice to say about any of my past jobs, and I was pretty unclear about which direction I wanted to go with regard to a 'career.' Putting down on paper my... Continue Reading Posted at 7:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar27	Odds and Ends Jason Boog March 27, 2006 I just opened up the KnowMoreMedia blog, the newswire for my parental blog company, only to find this post by one of ThePublishingSpot's pals, Chartreuse. He is writing about encyclopedias, of all things. Keep reading his stuff, if only for... Continue Reading Posted at 3:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Here Come the Crafties Jason Boog March 27, 2006 A big welcome to all the Jeffrey Yamaguchi readers coming to ThePublishingSpot for the first time. As always, I like to do a little linking action to inspire new readers, so I offer a couple Yamaguchi-endorsed places that you can... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Part One Jason Boog March 27, 2006 From running marathons to writing books, Jeffrey Yamaguchi is the busiest writer who ever visited these pages. Most recently, he created the 52 Projects site, the most distracting website I found since BoingBoing. 52 Projects showcases creative projects on the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar25	Ben Domenech and Pulp Fiction Jason Boog March 25, 2006 As you might have heard over and over again, Ben Domenech resigned from his new job at the Washington Post after bloggers discovered some plagiarized skeletons in his closet. Jay Rosen has the best take on the whole fiasco. I'd... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar24	Crime Bloggers and a Breaking News Story Jason Boog March 24, 2006 Today I was reading Rita Hanson's post about the murder of a popular pastor in Tennessee. Over at the Home Sweet Home crime blog, Hanson explores crimes that involve families, and her site links to some valuable organizations that protect... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Every Writer's Fantasy Jason Boog March 24, 2006 Via Chris Jackson, I discovered Elfwood last night. This fantasy writing and art site was founded by Thomas F. Abrahamsson ten years ago. Since then, the site has logged an astonishing 11 million member comments, and over 35,000 story contributions... Continue Reading Posted at 8:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar23	New Friends Jason Boog March 23, 2006 A new writer hit the blogging scene this week, sharing some of the experience he gained after publishing four books. Meet Chris A. Jackson, a writer who mixes fantastical settings with a gloomy, hyper-visual style. He's got a great designer... Continue Reading Posted at 7:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Honest-To-Goodness Expert Jason Boog March 23, 2006 If you are a fledgling writer who wants more than my crazed ramblings, you might be considering graduate school. MFA programs for writing have changed the course of a few of my writer-friends' careers. I myself attended the far-seeing graduate... Continue Reading Posted at 1:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fan Fiction and Original Fiction Jason Boog March 23, 2006 In an email, ThePublishingSpot reader Britannia reminded me that many fan fiction communities have spawned original fiction websites as well. Here are a few examples to get you started...Over at Fiction Central, the original fiction archive with over a thousand... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar22	HarperCollins Blogging Goodness Jason Boog March 22, 2006 Carl Lennertz over at Publishing Insider just blogged about two HarperCollins projects that took off thanks to help from web communities. First off, he writes about Postsecrets, one of my favorite obsessive spots on the Internet and now, the winner... Continue Reading Posted at 4:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Don't Get Me Started! Jason Boog March 22, 2006 So you want more fan fiction? Don't get me started! My fan fiction guardian angel, Britannia, sent in a whole pile of links for readers interested in other brands of fan fiction besides Harry Potter and Doctor Who. Check it... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar21	Two British Manifestos and a Disclaimer Jason Boog March 21, 2006 Thanks to my friend Dan Bell, I just read this bold article over at journalism.co.uk. Seems like English journalists are having the same revolutionary crisis as all of us living in the country of New York City:"The web often provides... Continue Reading Posted at 3:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, shade, Part Two Jason Boog March 21, 2006 HarryPotterFanFiction.com turned five years old this year. Before most human beings graduate from kindergarden, this amazing site had become home base for almost twelve thousand fledgling writers. The site's visitor statistics would make most web magazines drool: 22,000 stories archived, ... Continue Reading Posted at 11:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Flimsy Surfboards Jason Boog March 21, 2006 Steve Bryant from Publish.com is out live-blogging the Mix06 conference, hobnobbing with Bill Gates. Still, he managed to post about the Mediabistro article, Web First, Print Later. In the story, this journalism networking and intelligence site explored a stack of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar20	Fan Fiction Unleashed Jason Boog March 20, 2006 Via the supersite BoingBoing via ThePublishingSpot favorite, The Institute for the Future, I read this amazing bit of Chinese mass fiction. It's a gangster story posted in episodes written by warring authors, the kind of publishing melee that only the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Harry Potter Fan Fiction Links Jason Boog March 20, 2006 Thanks to Britannia (my inside source at Harry Potter Fan Fiction and guide through this sprawling corner of the writing universe), I offer a few helpful links for writers interested in finding out more about the genre: First of all,... Continue Reading Posted at 11:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, shade, Part One Jason Boog March 20, 2006 Even though the writer known as shade wouldn't reveal her full name to the ThePublishingSpot, plenty of readers know who she is. Nearly a thousand people have commented on her Harry Potter fan fiction, and countless more have read her... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar18	Doctor Who Digest Jason Boog March 18, 2006 For all those readers of ThePublishingSpot who clicked wildly to figure out who Doctor Who is during my fan fiction interview with James Bow, I offer this Doctor Who Digest so you can figure it out. Complete newbies should visit... Continue Reading Posted at 5:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Welcome to the Glass House Jason Boog March 18, 2006 Thanks to Bernard Moon, I found Phil Sim , a technology journalist and media director who throws stones at the glass house where all us 21st Century writers live. If you ever get too stuck on yourself, just visit Squash... Continue Reading Posted at 11:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar17	Five Easy Questions, James Bow, Part Two Jason Boog March 17, 2006 In his surreal new novel, The Unwritten Girl, James Bow's protagonist literally jumps off the page: hanging out with a fictional character from a Shakespeare play and glimpsing bit of the book that Bow is writing about her:"Rosemary looked at... Continue Reading Posted at 7:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar16	From Butterworthgate to Sylvestergate? Jason Boog March 16, 2006 As I noted earlier, The Financial Times has entered the blogging fray. Last month, they built this temporary blog to answer questions from readers about a controversial article by Trevor Butterworth. For better or for worse, the site generated an... Continue Reading Posted at 4:03 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions: James Bow, Part One Jason Boog March 16, 2006 Most readers of ThePublishingSpot haven't heard of James Bow yet, but he can teach us more about fan fiction web publishing than a week of interviews with some bestselling author. Bow's first genre-bending novel is still almost published and his... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Great Newspaper Blogging Debate Jason Boog March 16, 2006 As I reported here, The Financial Times just published an online debate featuring two prominent voices in the war between "old" and "new" media. Tom Glocer, the chief executive of the Reuters news service, faced off against Trevor Butterworth, a... Continue Reading Posted at 7:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar15	Who Owns the Klingon Death Wail? Jason Boog March 15, 2006 It's hard to talk about fan fiction without talking about digital rights. Countless authors have struggled with the legality of creating alternate adventures with somebody else's intellectual property. Not being a lawyer, I defer to the higher power of the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Happy Hardboiled Day Jason Boog March 15, 2006 Just a Happy Hardboiled Day to the Charlie Huston fans passing through ThePublishingSpot. I hope you had a good time and didn't hurt yourself. As long as you're here, maybe you want to read about Hardboiled Crime Bloggers or Hardboiled... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar14	"The book is reading you..." Jason Boog March 14, 2006 The good folks over at The Institute for the Future of the Book are on a roll this week. The real kicker came with this piece of web analysis, "the book is reading you." As usual, the If:Book scholar Ben... Continue Reading Posted at 1:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Dark Side of Fandom Jason Boog March 14, 2006 Clay Aiken just landed in a world of hurt after his fans discovered allegations that he might not be the straight pop star they imagined. In any field, from pop music to popular fiction, fan communities jealously guard the person,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"One big amateur sandbox" Jason Boog March 14, 2006 John Scalzi over at Whatever just wrapped up "Reader Request Week," where this hyperactive writer shared industry secrets and his opinions about life. In addition to a stack of non-fiction books, Scalzi finished his first novel (an old school science... Continue Reading Posted at 7:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar13	Old Time Radio Digest Jason Boog March 13, 2006 Today, the blogging academic Harry Heuser dropped me a line. His sprawling website digs through forgotten archives of old time radio dramas, turning up unexpected gems that shimmer in the 21st century light--like a voodoo melodrama interupted by news reports... Continue Reading Posted at 1:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Writers In Trouble Jason Boog March 13, 2006 In the wake of a media bombshell (the medium-sized McClatchy Company just bought the Knight-Ridder newspaper empire), Financial Times announced an online debate featuring two prominent voices in the war between "old" and "new" media. Tom Glocer, the chief executive... Continue Reading Posted at 9:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fan Fiction University Jason Boog March 13, 2006 Today I wanted to focus on the academics and thinkers who have written about the genre of fan fiction. In 2005, Sheenagh Pugh, a poet from Wales, published an analytic and compelling look at the genre in The Democratic Genre.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar12	From Fan Fiction to Published Fiction Jason Boog March 12, 2006 I've been reading James Bow all afternoon, a Canadian journalist, genre-bending novelist, and fan-fiction-loving blogger. Last February, he pondered different strategies for promoting his new novel in a long post about the new ways writers can use the Internet to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fan Blogging Jason Boog March 12, 2006 While chasing down a few more fan fiction leads, I stumbled across a writer named Trinket over at Blogcritics.org. Her biography is a bit mysterious: she seems to be a journalist and book writer, but most importantly, Trinket has mastered... Continue Reading Posted at 12:22 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar11	Lapdances!?! Jason Boog March 11, 2006 Only Chartreuse would celebrate getting a New York Times nod with a post entitled, "The New York Times And The Art Of Getting Free Lapdances." It's rare that somebody comes along with such a distinctive voice, especially in the technology/business... Continue Reading Posted at 3:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar10	Crime Writing Digest Jason Boog March 10, 2006 Keeping with my noir-ish themes the last two weeks, I wanted to leave you a couple more links for weekend reading pleasure. First, check out Steve Huff's 600-comments-long discussion of the Imette St. Guillen murder case. His readers have really... Continue Reading Posted at 3:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions: Charlie Huston, Part Two Jason Boog March 10, 2006 Earlier this week, Charlie Huston fired off a web essay about his absolute inability to follow the traditional boundaries of fiction. The essay reminded me of a couple things I tend to forget when I focus too much on the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 9	I Was a Podcaster for the FBI Jason Boog March 9, 2006 When the laconic and super-smart blogger Chartreuse recycled this Very Important Post About Web Community under the heading, "Best of Chartreuse," one reader commented: "Best of?!? On a blog?!? You are either a genius or lazy!" "Lazy," Chartreuse replied. And... Continue Reading Posted at 2:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, Charlie Huston, Part One Jason Boog March 9, 2006 With a bit of luck and some fast work from a great writer, I offer an interview with novelist Charlie Huston for your weekend enjoyment. Sandwiched between our recent discussions about crime bloggers and fan fiction, Huston is the perfect... Continue Reading Posted at 11:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 8	"Fanfic Is Hard To Write" Jason Boog March 8, 2006 In the interest of exploring the craft and challenges of fan fiction, I spent some time surfing the Fanfic Symposium, a collection of essays and forums designed to help fan fiction writers improve their craft. It's really interesting to watch... Continue Reading Posted at 8:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 7	Don't Pat My Back Jason Boog March 7, 2006 In my tireless journey through the sprawling (and impossible to summarize) world of fan fiction, I stumbled upon this funny LiveJournal site called The Pitfalls of Fan Fiction where writers can rant until they turn blue about the bad habits... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	I couldn't have said it better myself Jason Boog March 7, 2006 Steve Bryant passes along his second nugget of publishing wisdom in two days, this ClickZ Network article by Zachary Rodgers about the evolving nature of the book campaign. It's jam-packed with wisdom from publishing superheroes, and takes a more systematic... Continue Reading Posted at 12:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Love and Obsessiveness Jason Boog March 7, 2006 Over the next few weeks, ThePublishingSpot will spend time with fan fiction writers, exploring this alternative-reality publishing hub on the Internet. I won't spend too much time defining the art form (or trying to classify individual parts), because you can... Continue Reading Posted at 8:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 6	Steve Outing and Enthusiasm Jason Boog March 6, 2006 As long as we are talking about mainstream newspapers and blogs, we might as well talk about blogs that might replace newspapers too. Steve Bryant over at Publish.com had a long chat with Steve Outing--a Poynter professor who just started... Continue Reading Posted at 2:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	One More Crime Blog Digest Jason Boog March 6, 2006 As the Imette St. Guillen murder investigation continues in New York City, it's fascinating to watch how the crime blogger community has pulled together for this investigation. Following my interview with crime writer Steve Huff, I wanted to include one... Continue Reading Posted at 11:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Take Heart Jason Boog March 6, 2006 I woke up this morning discover a happy new website over at my alma mater, New York University. In Blue Plate Special, a group of NYU students banded together with journalism professor and stand-out blogger, Jay Rosen, to rate the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:53 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 5	Disruptive Technology Jason Boog March 5, 2006 Vin Crosbie over at the media think tank, Corante, just published a essay about the ways the Internet is altering the business of newspapers. Crosbie has spent most of his professional life as a newspaper executive, and he knows his... Continue Reading Posted at 10:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 3	How does your writing sound? Jason Boog March 3, 2006 Before I leave you for the weekend, I give you this funny post from Jeff VanderMeer, one of the patron saints of ThePublishingSpot. In this post, Jeff asks readers to tell him how specific creatures sound inside his magical novel... Continue Reading Posted at 4:09 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Crime Bloggers and Journalists Jason Boog March 3, 2006 Last night I spent some time last night digging through Joe Dwinell's blog over at the Boston Herald. This innovative managing editor wrote a lengthy post about the murder of Rachel Entwistle and her baby, Lillian--both killed in January. The... Continue Reading Posted at 7:47 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 2	Dreaming About Writing Jason Boog March 2, 2006 I just read that the novelist Frederick Busch has died. Slushpile.com takes a thoughtful look at his career, Scott Smith over at Storycasting.com links to a good interview with the writer, and readers at The Elegant Variation discuss Busch's work.As... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Greetings Crime Readers and Writers! Jason Boog March 2, 2006 Most of my visitors today have arrived looking for my interview with crime writer Steve Huff. I really hope you enjoy the material, and I hope you keep coming back to ThePublishingSpot. I'm always looking for new writers and sites... Continue Reading Posted at 7:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 1	Burn More Soapboxes! Jason Boog March 1, 2006 A new media blogger, Chartreuse just published a post about the absolute lack of support between old bloggers and new bloggers. The post gave my Burn the Soapboxes post a nod at the height of the rant, and I appreciated... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Crime Blog Digest Jason Boog March 1, 2006 Expanding on Steve Huff's list of blog links, I wanted to list a few more websites that fledgling crime writers should follow--a Crime Blog Digest, if you will. No matter what subject a writer is researching, it's always important to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Mar31	Publishing 101 Jason Boog March 31, 2006 Know More: Publishers, Publishing Companies, Writing Resources 2.0, Writing Resources ThePublishingSpot reader Lara Kordic sent me a link today. Over at the Simon Fraser University Vancouver, the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing has put out a brand new book-- a comprehensive look at the publishing industry. From building dictionaries to publishing in China, this book has it all. The book is co-written by members of a publishing think-tank at the university, a group dedicated to setting out best practices for publishing. I admire anybody trying to start something from scratch, from this blog to Canadian university programs. Fledgling projects like ours won't always come up with the most elegant solution, but we always come up with the most innovative ideas. Go therefore, and read the book... Posted at 12:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar31	My Own Selfish Ends Jason Boog March 31, 2006 In this week's Village Voice, Michael Feingold fired off an anti-web screed couched inside a review of a stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. In true cyberspace attention deficit disorderly fashion, I am quoting his rant out-of-context (even though... Continue Reading Posted at 8:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar30	Five Easy Questions Digest, Edition Two Jason Boog March 30, 2006 Another month has zoomed by, and I hope you caught all the Five Easy Question-action that transpired this crazy month. You can learn more in five minutes with these writers than you could learn in five days with me, so... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Creative Writing MFA: Masters or Margaritas? Jason Boog March 30, 2006 In a happy turn of events, Tom Kealey will soon be featured in my interview extravaganza, Five Easy Questions. Kealey wrote the book on creative writing Masters program applications, and I'm looking forward to his advice for us fledgling writers.In... Continue Reading Posted at 8:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar29	We Go Nuclear Jason Boog March 29, 2006 Earlier this week, a nuclear power engineer emailed me. That's one of the most beautiful things about this job, you never know who's out there reading. James Aach has written a novel that takes an insider look at an awe-inspiring... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Blog and Newspaper Truce Jason Boog March 29, 2006 After our discussion about the war between newspapers and blogs, our buddy Steve Bryant just wrote about BlogBurst, a new company designed to syndicate blogs for newspapers. With this new service, newspapers can cooperate with the best blogs and improve... Continue Reading Posted at 1:03 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	One Last Crafty Digest Jason Boog March 29, 2006 Following Jeffrey Yamaguchi's interview, I put together one last digest with 52 Projects-esque sites for crafty readers. Need some ink-spattered writing advice? Visit Maud Newton, the good-book-spotting author. She's prolific as heck, most recently writing for The American Prospect. Feeling... Continue Reading Posted at 8:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar28	Stanislaw Lem Has Died Jason Boog March 28, 2006 Stanislaw Lem has died. Ever since I read his novel Fiasco, I fell in love with his Jorge Luis Borges-laced blend of science fiction. Every story was lovingly crafted, and it seemed like Lem had created a new set of... Continue Reading Posted at 2:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	More Crafty Links Jason Boog March 28, 2006 Following Jeffrey Yamaguchi's outstanding interview, I'd like to offer a few more 52 Projects-approved links for your artsy-craftsy pleasure. First up, for all the photographers in the audience, your waitress photos features a daily picture taken by an artist-with-a-day-job named... Continue Reading Posted at 11:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Part Two Jason Boog March 28, 2006 "I basically hated my job, I didn't have anything nice to say about any of my past jobs, and I was pretty unclear about which direction I wanted to go with regard to a 'career.' Putting down on paper my... Continue Reading Posted at 7:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar27	Odds and Ends Jason Boog March 27, 2006 I just opened up the KnowMoreMedia blog, the newswire for my parental blog company, only to find this post by one of ThePublishingSpot's pals, Chartreuse. He is writing about encyclopedias, of all things. Keep reading his stuff, if only for... Continue Reading Posted at 3:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Here Come the Crafties Jason Boog March 27, 2006 A big welcome to all the Jeffrey Yamaguchi readers coming to ThePublishingSpot for the first time. As always, I like to do a little linking action to inspire new readers, so I offer a couple Yamaguchi-endorsed places that you can... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Part One Jason Boog March 27, 2006 From running marathons to writing books, Jeffrey Yamaguchi is the busiest writer who ever visited these pages. Most recently, he created the 52 Projects site, the most distracting website I found since BoingBoing. 52 Projects showcases creative projects on the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar25	Ben Domenech and Pulp Fiction Jason Boog March 25, 2006 As you might have heard over and over again, Ben Domenech resigned from his new job at the Washington Post after bloggers discovered some plagiarized skeletons in his closet. Jay Rosen has the best take on the whole fiasco. I'd... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar24	Crime Bloggers and a Breaking News Story Jason Boog March 24, 2006 Today I was reading Rita Hanson's post about the murder of a popular pastor in Tennessee. Over at the Home Sweet Home crime blog, Hanson explores crimes that involve families, and her site links to some valuable organizations that protect... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Every Writer's Fantasy Jason Boog March 24, 2006 Via Chris Jackson, I discovered Elfwood last night. This fantasy writing and art site was founded by Thomas F. Abrahamsson ten years ago. Since then, the site has logged an astonishing 11 million member comments, and over 35,000 story contributions... Continue Reading Posted at 8:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar23	New Friends Jason Boog March 23, 2006 A new writer hit the blogging scene this week, sharing some of the experience he gained after publishing four books. Meet Chris A. Jackson, a writer who mixes fantastical settings with a gloomy, hyper-visual style. He's got a great designer... Continue Reading Posted at 7:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Honest-To-Goodness Expert Jason Boog March 23, 2006 If you are a fledgling writer who wants more than my crazed ramblings, you might be considering graduate school. MFA programs for writing have changed the course of a few of my writer-friends' careers. I myself attended the far-seeing graduate... Continue Reading Posted at 1:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fan Fiction and Original Fiction Jason Boog March 23, 2006 In an email, ThePublishingSpot reader Britannia reminded me that many fan fiction communities have spawned original fiction websites as well. Here are a few examples to get you started...Over at Fiction Central, the original fiction archive with over a thousand... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar22	HarperCollins Blogging Goodness Jason Boog March 22, 2006 Carl Lennertz over at Publishing Insider just blogged about two HarperCollins projects that took off thanks to help from web communities. First off, he writes about Postsecrets, one of my favorite obsessive spots on the Internet and now, the winner... Continue Reading Posted at 4:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Don't Get Me Started! Jason Boog March 22, 2006 So you want more fan fiction? Don't get me started! My fan fiction guardian angel, Britannia, sent in a whole pile of links for readers interested in other brands of fan fiction besides Harry Potter and Doctor Who. Check it... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar21	Two British Manifestos and a Disclaimer Jason Boog March 21, 2006 Thanks to my friend Dan Bell, I just read this bold article over at journalism.co.uk. Seems like English journalists are having the same revolutionary crisis as all of us living in the country of New York City:"The web often provides... Continue Reading Posted at 3:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, shade, Part Two Jason Boog March 21, 2006 HarryPotterFanFiction.com turned five years old this year. Before most human beings graduate from kindergarden, this amazing site had become home base for almost twelve thousand fledgling writers. The site's visitor statistics would make most web magazines drool: 22,000 stories archived, ... Continue Reading Posted at 11:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Flimsy Surfboards Jason Boog March 21, 2006 Steve Bryant from Publish.com is out live-blogging the Mix06 conference, hobnobbing with Bill Gates. Still, he managed to post about the Mediabistro article, Web First, Print Later. In the story, this journalism networking and intelligence site explored a stack of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar20	Fan Fiction Unleashed Jason Boog March 20, 2006 Via the supersite BoingBoing via ThePublishingSpot favorite, The Institute for the Future, I read this amazing bit of Chinese mass fiction. It's a gangster story posted in episodes written by warring authors, the kind of publishing melee that only the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Harry Potter Fan Fiction Links Jason Boog March 20, 2006 Thanks to Britannia (my inside source at Harry Potter Fan Fiction and guide through this sprawling corner of the writing universe), I offer a few helpful links for writers interested in finding out more about the genre: First of all,... Continue Reading Posted at 11:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, shade, Part One Jason Boog March 20, 2006 Even though the writer known as shade wouldn't reveal her full name to the ThePublishingSpot, plenty of readers know who she is. Nearly a thousand people have commented on her Harry Potter fan fiction, and countless more have read her... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar18	Doctor Who Digest Jason Boog March 18, 2006 For all those readers of ThePublishingSpot who clicked wildly to figure out who Doctor Who is during my fan fiction interview with James Bow, I offer this Doctor Who Digest so you can figure it out. Complete newbies should visit... Continue Reading Posted at 5:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Welcome to the Glass House Jason Boog March 18, 2006 Thanks to Bernard Moon, I found Phil Sim , a technology journalist and media director who throws stones at the glass house where all us 21st Century writers live. If you ever get too stuck on yourself, just visit Squash... Continue Reading Posted at 11:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar17	Five Easy Questions, James Bow, Part Two Jason Boog March 17, 2006 In his surreal new novel, The Unwritten Girl, James Bow's protagonist literally jumps off the page: hanging out with a fictional character from a Shakespeare play and glimpsing bit of the book that Bow is writing about her:"Rosemary looked at... Continue Reading Posted at 7:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar16	From Butterworthgate to Sylvestergate? Jason Boog March 16, 2006 As I noted earlier, The Financial Times has entered the blogging fray. Last month, they built this temporary blog to answer questions from readers about a controversial article by Trevor Butterworth. For better or for worse, the site generated an... Continue Reading Posted at 4:03 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions: James Bow, Part One Jason Boog March 16, 2006 Most readers of ThePublishingSpot haven't heard of James Bow yet, but he can teach us more about fan fiction web publishing than a week of interviews with some bestselling author. Bow's first genre-bending novel is still almost published and his... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Great Newspaper Blogging Debate Jason Boog March 16, 2006 As I reported here, The Financial Times just published an online debate featuring two prominent voices in the war between "old" and "new" media. Tom Glocer, the chief executive of the Reuters news service, faced off against Trevor Butterworth, a... Continue Reading Posted at 7:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar15	Who Owns the Klingon Death Wail? Jason Boog March 15, 2006 It's hard to talk about fan fiction without talking about digital rights. Countless authors have struggled with the legality of creating alternate adventures with somebody else's intellectual property. Not being a lawyer, I defer to the higher power of the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Happy Hardboiled Day Jason Boog March 15, 2006 Just a Happy Hardboiled Day to the Charlie Huston fans passing through ThePublishingSpot. I hope you had a good time and didn't hurt yourself. As long as you're here, maybe you want to read about Hardboiled Crime Bloggers or Hardboiled... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar14	"The book is reading you..." Jason Boog March 14, 2006 The good folks over at The Institute for the Future of the Book are on a roll this week. The real kicker came with this piece of web analysis, "the book is reading you." As usual, the If:Book scholar Ben... Continue Reading Posted at 1:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Dark Side of Fandom Jason Boog March 14, 2006 Clay Aiken just landed in a world of hurt after his fans discovered allegations that he might not be the straight pop star they imagined. In any field, from pop music to popular fiction, fan communities jealously guard the person,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"One big amateur sandbox" Jason Boog March 14, 2006 John Scalzi over at Whatever just wrapped up "Reader Request Week," where this hyperactive writer shared industry secrets and his opinions about life. In addition to a stack of non-fiction books, Scalzi finished his first novel (an old school science... Continue Reading Posted at 7:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar13	Old Time Radio Digest Jason Boog March 13, 2006 Today, the blogging academic Harry Heuser dropped me a line. His sprawling website digs through forgotten archives of old time radio dramas, turning up unexpected gems that shimmer in the 21st century light--like a voodoo melodrama interupted by news reports... Continue Reading Posted at 1:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Writers In Trouble Jason Boog March 13, 2006 In the wake of a media bombshell (the medium-sized McClatchy Company just bought the Knight-Ridder newspaper empire), Financial Times announced an online debate featuring two prominent voices in the war between "old" and "new" media. Tom Glocer, the chief executive... Continue Reading Posted at 9:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fan Fiction University Jason Boog March 13, 2006 Today I wanted to focus on the academics and thinkers who have written about the genre of fan fiction. In 2005, Sheenagh Pugh, a poet from Wales, published an analytic and compelling look at the genre in The Democratic Genre.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar12	From Fan Fiction to Published Fiction Jason Boog March 12, 2006 I've been reading James Bow all afternoon, a Canadian journalist, genre-bending novelist, and fan-fiction-loving blogger. Last February, he pondered different strategies for promoting his new novel in a long post about the new ways writers can use the Internet to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fan Blogging Jason Boog March 12, 2006 While chasing down a few more fan fiction leads, I stumbled across a writer named Trinket over at Blogcritics.org. Her biography is a bit mysterious: she seems to be a journalist and book writer, but most importantly, Trinket has mastered... Continue Reading Posted at 12:22 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar11	Lapdances!?! Jason Boog March 11, 2006 Only Chartreuse would celebrate getting a New York Times nod with a post entitled, "The New York Times And The Art Of Getting Free Lapdances." It's rare that somebody comes along with such a distinctive voice, especially in the technology/business... Continue Reading Posted at 3:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar10	Crime Writing Digest Jason Boog March 10, 2006 Keeping with my noir-ish themes the last two weeks, I wanted to leave you a couple more links for weekend reading pleasure. First, check out Steve Huff's 600-comments-long discussion of the Imette St. Guillen murder case. His readers have really... Continue Reading Posted at 3:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions: Charlie Huston, Part Two Jason Boog March 10, 2006 Earlier this week, Charlie Huston fired off a web essay about his absolute inability to follow the traditional boundaries of fiction. The essay reminded me of a couple things I tend to forget when I focus too much on the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 9	I Was a Podcaster for the FBI Jason Boog March 9, 2006 When the laconic and super-smart blogger Chartreuse recycled this Very Important Post About Web Community under the heading, "Best of Chartreuse," one reader commented: "Best of?!? On a blog?!? You are either a genius or lazy!" "Lazy," Chartreuse replied. And... Continue Reading Posted at 2:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Easy Questions, Charlie Huston, Part One Jason Boog March 9, 2006 With a bit of luck and some fast work from a great writer, I offer an interview with novelist Charlie Huston for your weekend enjoyment. Sandwiched between our recent discussions about crime bloggers and fan fiction, Huston is the perfect... Continue Reading Posted at 11:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 8	"Fanfic Is Hard To Write" Jason Boog March 8, 2006 In the interest of exploring the craft and challenges of fan fiction, I spent some time surfing the Fanfic Symposium, a collection of essays and forums designed to help fan fiction writers improve their craft. It's really interesting to watch... Continue Reading Posted at 8:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 7	Don't Pat My Back Jason Boog March 7, 2006 In my tireless journey through the sprawling (and impossible to summarize) world of fan fiction, I stumbled upon this funny LiveJournal site called The Pitfalls of Fan Fiction where writers can rant until they turn blue about the bad habits... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	I couldn't have said it better myself Jason Boog March 7, 2006 Steve Bryant passes along his second nugget of publishing wisdom in two days, this ClickZ Network article by Zachary Rodgers about the evolving nature of the book campaign. It's jam-packed with wisdom from publishing superheroes, and takes a more systematic... Continue Reading Posted at 12:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Love and Obsessiveness Jason Boog March 7, 2006 Over the next few weeks, ThePublishingSpot will spend time with fan fiction writers, exploring this alternative-reality publishing hub on the Internet. I won't spend too much time defining the art form (or trying to classify individual parts), because you can... Continue Reading Posted at 8:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 6	Steve Outing and Enthusiasm Jason Boog March 6, 2006 As long as we are talking about mainstream newspapers and blogs, we might as well talk about blogs that might replace newspapers too. Steve Bryant over at Publish.com had a long chat with Steve Outing--a Poynter professor who just started... Continue Reading Posted at 2:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	One More Crime Blog Digest Jason Boog March 6, 2006 As the Imette St. Guillen murder investigation continues in New York City, it's fascinating to watch how the crime blogger community has pulled together for this investigation. Following my interview with crime writer Steve Huff, I wanted to include one... Continue Reading Posted at 11:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Take Heart Jason Boog March 6, 2006 I woke up this morning discover a happy new website over at my alma mater, New York University. In Blue Plate Special, a group of NYU students banded together with journalism professor and stand-out blogger, Jay Rosen, to rate the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:53 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 5	Disruptive Technology Jason Boog March 5, 2006 Vin Crosbie over at the media think tank, Corante, just published a essay about the ways the Internet is altering the business of newspapers. Crosbie has spent most of his professional life as a newspaper executive, and he knows his... Continue Reading Posted at 10:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 3	How does your writing sound? Jason Boog March 3, 2006 Before I leave you for the weekend, I give you this funny post from Jeff VanderMeer, one of the patron saints of ThePublishingSpot. In this post, Jeff asks readers to tell him how specific creatures sound inside his magical novel... Continue Reading Posted at 4:09 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Crime Bloggers and Journalists Jason Boog March 3, 2006 Last night I spent some time last night digging through Joe Dwinell's blog over at the Boston Herald. This innovative managing editor wrote a lengthy post about the murder of Rachel Entwistle and her baby, Lillian--both killed in January. The... Continue Reading Posted at 7:47 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 2	Dreaming About Writing Jason Boog March 2, 2006 I just read that the novelist Frederick Busch has died. Slushpile.com takes a thoughtful look at his career, Scott Smith over at Storycasting.com links to a good interview with the writer, and readers at The Elegant Variation discuss Busch's work.As... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Greetings Crime Readers and Writers! Jason Boog March 2, 2006 Most of my visitors today have arrived looking for my interview with crime writer Steve Huff. I really hope you enjoy the material, and I hope you keep coming back to ThePublishingSpot. I'm always looking for new writers and sites... Continue Reading Posted at 7:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 1	Burn More Soapboxes! Jason Boog March 1, 2006 A new media blogger, Chartreuse just published a post about the absolute lack of support between old bloggers and new bloggers. The post gave my Burn the Soapboxes post a nod at the height of the rant, and I appreciated... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Crime Blog Digest Jason Boog March 1, 2006 Expanding on Steve Huff's list of blog links, I wanted to list a few more websites that fledgling crime writers should follow--a Crime Blog Digest, if you will. No matter what subject a writer is researching, it's always important to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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