
Check out the winners:
Overall Winner (and Non-Fiction Winner): Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
Fiction Winner: Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
Comics Winner: Totally Boned: A Joe and Monkey Collection by Zach Miller
I'm most interested in Julie & Julie, a bit of non-fiction by a blogger with one of those writing voices that jumps out of your computer and grabs you. Julie Powell's book follows her crazy quest to execute all 524 recipes in the Julia Child cookbook, in a year. Just like the Chinese Gangster Story, new styles are popping up around the compulsive timing and pulp fiction production schedule of blogs. Three cheers for the writers leading that innovation...







» Five Easy Questions, Tom Kealey, Part Two from ThePublishingSpot
Over the last few days, I've corresponded with Tom Kealey, the award-winning short story writer and and Stanford University creative writing professor who literally wrote the book about creative writing MFA programs. It's been a great conversatio... [Read More]
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