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Jun 5
Publishing Spotted: Review Redux, Nice Newton, and Sci-Fi Selection

Spaceman Blues: A Love SongThe Death of the Book Review. The Rebirth of the Book Review. The Book Review Gets a New Set of Clothes and Learns How To Dance.

Everybody has a theory about The Future of Book Reviews. Ed Champion weighs them all in this live-blogged, heated panel at the Book Expo. 

Maud Newton is on a roll. First she spots a picture of the reclusive Christian comic book tract writer, Jack Chick. Then she ruminates on the nature of novel structure and the benefits of writing pacts. Follow these links: "Mark and I have a writing pact, and he’s more than upheld his end of it. So I won’t ruminate about my progress except to say that lately I can’t stop thinking about structure. A book fails or succeeds on its architecture, and right now my draft is bloated and wobbly." 

Over at Mumpsimus, I just discovered Brian Francis Slattery's debut novel, Spaceman Blues. I loved the site's review of the book, and I was even more excited after I saw Slattery's website. I'm going to try and line up a Five Easy Questions about writing surreal space age immigration novels.

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

 


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