ThePublishingSpot: July 2008 Archives

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Jul31	Publishing Spotted: Link Heaven Jason Boog July 31, 2008 Know More: Publishing Spotted Doubleday, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, lit blogs Some days I just wake up and everything I see on the Internet seems worth sharing. Today is one of those days. What's your deadline? Novelist Catherynne M. Valente has a post that all writers lacking in personal deadlines should read. It's pretty simple: How To Write A Novel In 30 Days. If that's too much for your brain to handle, try this more relaxed formula: How to Write a Novel in Two Months. Publishing Spot alum Jeffrey Yamaguchi just helped Doubleday revamp its website. Book Business has the interview and GalleyCat has the links. Every couple months, somebody writes an essay about how literary blogs are ruining literature. And every couple months, Edward Champion writes a link-filled post that proves them wrong. The Harper's book blog unearths an essay that explains where Philip Roth gets his wonderful first lines. Check it out. And most importantly, tune in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion of our interview with novelist Andrew Davidson. Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul30	The Novelist's Bookshelf: The Books That Inspired Novelist Andrew Davidson Jason Boog July 30, 2008 We spend a lot of time talking about agents, query letters and other parts of the post-book-writing process. It's easy to forget the most fundamental part of writing, the one thing that brings us all together in the first place.Reading... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul29	Balancing a Day Job and a Writing Life: Novelist Andrew Davidson's Advice Jason Boog July 29, 2008 “When I was gripped by fits of cocaine paranoia, I would burn my poetry journals and watch the burning pages peel off one another in layers, the flames spitting little gray flakes into the air. As my ashen words swirled... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul28	How Novelist Andrew Davidson Cut 40,000 Words Out of His Novel and Lived To Tell the Tale: Revision 101 Jason Boog July 28, 2008 “Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”That’s the opening passage from The Gargoyle, one of the publishing world’s biggest releases this year. The book doesn’t feel like an accident—it reads like an obsessive, intricate dream. Still, after reading... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul25	Dueling Metaphors: Is Batman President Bush? Jason Boog July 25, 2008 Is the new Batman movie a tribute to the Bush administration? I was so excited, I saw The Dark Knight opening night. When it was over, I had mixed feelings. Buried in the convoluted plot were some queasy ideas about... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul24	The Publishing Spot Library: Novelist DeLauné Michel Jason Boog July 24, 2008 Yesterday was Free Indirect Narration Day, and today is Dialogue Day. Out of all my guests this year, novelist DeLauné Michel had the best ear for writing dialogue. You could hear it when she read the work out-loud--her characters were... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul23	Happy Free Indirect Narration Day! Jason Boog July 23, 2008 What's your favorite style of narration?Myself, I'm a sucker for good old-fashioned hardboiled first-person narration--I read too many private detective novels and pulp fiction books. But one very important critic disagrees with me. Today Leon Neyfakh has an article about... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul22	How To Tell a Superhero Story Jason Boog July 22, 2008 That's the preview to next summer's Watchmen movie, an adaptation of Alan Moore's earth-shaking graphic novel that brought pulp fiction, punk rock and novelistic storytelling to the superhero genre. I've been foisting this book off on friends for more than... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul21	If You Can't Beat 'Em, Write Like 'Em Jason Boog July 21, 2008 Are you tired of self-help books and power of positive thinking schemes that clutter the publishing scene? If you can't beat 'em, write like 'em. The Wall Street Journal has a whole article about the fine art of fake self-help... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul18	Publishing Spotted: First Times and First Paragraphs Jason Boog July 18, 2008 How do you build a reading community around a book with a dark, difficult premise?Andrew Davidson's first novel, The Gargoyle, opens with some tough passages about car accidents and burn victims. His book site features real people telling real stories... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul17	Author Michelle Richmond and The Art of Quiet Reading Jason Boog July 17, 2008 That's some quality reading advice from a Publishing Spot alum. It's always easy to be loud and silly at a public reading--you can read with inflection, you can throw candy or you can sing a song. But that's not always the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul16	How Can Freelancers Survive These Days? Jason Boog July 16, 2008 Can freelance writers survive in this challenging economy?One of the best freelance book reviewers and podcasters in the business has put all his interviewing efforts on hold--rocked by shrinking book reviewing budgets at his favorite outlets.Read the sad news here... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul15	How To Write a Graduate School Application Essay: Dueling Comments Jason Boog July 15, 2008 Want to get into a creative writing MFA program? Besides polishing up your best work, you need to master in a very particular genre--the graduate school application essay.Luckily, the Creative Writing MFA Blog has some crucial intelligence on the subject... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul14	What The New Yorker and Hustler Magazine Have in Common Jason Boog July 14, 2008 In case you were sleeping in a cave this morning, The New Yorker published a satirical cover that managed to make both Barack Obama and John McCain upset.Journalist Michael Scherer reminds us to look back at the Supreme Court's landmark... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul11	Storytelling Goldmine Jason Boog July 11, 2008 It's time to read some stories out-loud. Publishing Spot alum Susan Henderson alerts us to an upcoming short-short story reading this weekend, tipping us off to a great radio reading series as well. And, lo and behold, this reading series is... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul10	The Pulitzer Prize Right Under Your Nose Jason Boog July 10, 2008 Investigative journalists are ignoring information goldmines on the web--literally millions of government databases go unexamined by the press every year. Over at Idea Lab, programmer and journalist Ryan Mark is exploring how a new generation of journalists are figuring... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 9	Creative Citizen Journalism or Citizen Creative Nonfiction? Jason Boog July 9, 2008 Imagine Hunter S. Thompson cross-bred with Instapundit, and then ask yourself--what can the art of creative nonfiction learn from citizen journalism? The first genre traditionally focuses on highly-polished, long-form literary journalism, while the other genre depends on blogged, rapid-fire community... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 8	"Which one of the internets do we hack?" : Writing Fake Works of Art Jason Boog July 8, 2008 What if bombastic director Michael Bay wrote the next Batman movie? Spill.com has a fake script that imagines how Bay would screw up the upcoming installment (The Dark Knight) of the comic book franchise, including this choice quote: "GENERAL: Okay,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 7	Publishing Spotted: Lost Books Jason Boog July 7, 2008 Can television save the book?Attempting to answer that strange question, ABC has a brand new Lost Book Club--looking at how the popular show features some of our favorite books (like Philip K. Dick's Valis and Madeleine L’Engle's A Wrinkle in... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Matchmaker Make Me A Match Jason Boog July 7, 2008 Up until now, authors and publishing companies did all the work of finding people to review their books. But what if literary bloggers could find books to review all by themselves? In Canada, the new service Mini Book Expo is... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 3	Why Click When You Can Subscribe? Jason Boog July 3, 2008 As we shuffle off for a long holiday weekend, I'd like to remind you to stop clicking on my website.I'm serious. Why click on this website every day when you can subscribe, via email or RSS feed? Let a computer... Continue Reading Posted at 1:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 2	Dueling Comments: Pop Will Eat Itself Jason Boog July 2, 2008 The media blog Fimoculous has become one of my favorite reads lately. It's easy-to-read, well-written and keeps all of Rex Sorgatz's webby projects together in one place. Every once in awhile, the comments section lights up with some glittering moments... Continue Reading Posted at 1:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 1	Zines! Zines! Zines! Jason Boog July 1, 2008 Please tell me you've read at least one zine in your life.Last week, GalleyCat published an essay by novelist Tim W. Brown about zines. That love poem took me back to my coffeehouse days in high school, paying a... Continue Reading Posted at 1:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Jul31	Publishing Spotted: Link Heaven Jason Boog July 31, 2008 Know More: Publishing Spotted Doubleday, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, lit blogs Some days I just wake up and everything I see on the Internet seems worth sharing. Today is one of those days. What's your deadline? Novelist Catherynne M. Valente has a post that all writers lacking in personal deadlines should read. It's pretty simple: How To Write A Novel In 30 Days. If that's too much for your brain to handle, try this more relaxed formula: How to Write a Novel in Two Months. Publishing Spot alum Jeffrey Yamaguchi just helped Doubleday revamp its website. Book Business has the interview and GalleyCat has the links. Every couple months, somebody writes an essay about how literary blogs are ruining literature. And every couple months, Edward Champion writes a link-filled post that proves them wrong. The Harper's book blog unearths an essay that explains where Philip Roth gets his wonderful first lines. Check it out. And most importantly, tune in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion of our interview with novelist Andrew Davidson. Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul30	The Novelist's Bookshelf: The Books That Inspired Novelist Andrew Davidson Jason Boog July 30, 2008 We spend a lot of time talking about agents, query letters and other parts of the post-book-writing process. It's easy to forget the most fundamental part of writing, the one thing that brings us all together in the first place.Reading... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul29	Balancing a Day Job and a Writing Life: Novelist Andrew Davidson's Advice Jason Boog July 29, 2008 “When I was gripped by fits of cocaine paranoia, I would burn my poetry journals and watch the burning pages peel off one another in layers, the flames spitting little gray flakes into the air. As my ashen words swirled... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul28	How Novelist Andrew Davidson Cut 40,000 Words Out of His Novel and Lived To Tell the Tale: Revision 101 Jason Boog July 28, 2008 “Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”That’s the opening passage from The Gargoyle, one of the publishing world’s biggest releases this year. The book doesn’t feel like an accident—it reads like an obsessive, intricate dream. Still, after reading... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul25	Dueling Metaphors: Is Batman President Bush? Jason Boog July 25, 2008 Is the new Batman movie a tribute to the Bush administration? I was so excited, I saw The Dark Knight opening night. When it was over, I had mixed feelings. Buried in the convoluted plot were some queasy ideas about... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul24	The Publishing Spot Library: Novelist DeLauné Michel Jason Boog July 24, 2008 Yesterday was Free Indirect Narration Day, and today is Dialogue Day. Out of all my guests this year, novelist DeLauné Michel had the best ear for writing dialogue. You could hear it when she read the work out-loud--her characters were... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul23	Happy Free Indirect Narration Day! Jason Boog July 23, 2008 What's your favorite style of narration?Myself, I'm a sucker for good old-fashioned hardboiled first-person narration--I read too many private detective novels and pulp fiction books. But one very important critic disagrees with me. Today Leon Neyfakh has an article about... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul22	How To Tell a Superhero Story Jason Boog July 22, 2008 That's the preview to next summer's Watchmen movie, an adaptation of Alan Moore's earth-shaking graphic novel that brought pulp fiction, punk rock and novelistic storytelling to the superhero genre. I've been foisting this book off on friends for more than... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul21	If You Can't Beat 'Em, Write Like 'Em Jason Boog July 21, 2008 Are you tired of self-help books and power of positive thinking schemes that clutter the publishing scene? If you can't beat 'em, write like 'em. The Wall Street Journal has a whole article about the fine art of fake self-help... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul18	Publishing Spotted: First Times and First Paragraphs Jason Boog July 18, 2008 How do you build a reading community around a book with a dark, difficult premise?Andrew Davidson's first novel, The Gargoyle, opens with some tough passages about car accidents and burn victims. His book site features real people telling real stories... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul17	Author Michelle Richmond and The Art of Quiet Reading Jason Boog July 17, 2008 That's some quality reading advice from a Publishing Spot alum. It's always easy to be loud and silly at a public reading--you can read with inflection, you can throw candy or you can sing a song. But that's not always the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul16	How Can Freelancers Survive These Days? Jason Boog July 16, 2008 Can freelance writers survive in this challenging economy?One of the best freelance book reviewers and podcasters in the business has put all his interviewing efforts on hold--rocked by shrinking book reviewing budgets at his favorite outlets.Read the sad news here... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul15	How To Write a Graduate School Application Essay: Dueling Comments Jason Boog July 15, 2008 Want to get into a creative writing MFA program? Besides polishing up your best work, you need to master in a very particular genre--the graduate school application essay.Luckily, the Creative Writing MFA Blog has some crucial intelligence on the subject... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul14	What The New Yorker and Hustler Magazine Have in Common Jason Boog July 14, 2008 In case you were sleeping in a cave this morning, The New Yorker published a satirical cover that managed to make both Barack Obama and John McCain upset.Journalist Michael Scherer reminds us to look back at the Supreme Court's landmark... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul11	Storytelling Goldmine Jason Boog July 11, 2008 It's time to read some stories out-loud. Publishing Spot alum Susan Henderson alerts us to an upcoming short-short story reading this weekend, tipping us off to a great radio reading series as well. And, lo and behold, this reading series is... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul10	The Pulitzer Prize Right Under Your Nose Jason Boog July 10, 2008 Investigative journalists are ignoring information goldmines on the web--literally millions of government databases go unexamined by the press every year. Over at Idea Lab, programmer and journalist Ryan Mark is exploring how a new generation of journalists are figuring... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 9	Creative Citizen Journalism or Citizen Creative Nonfiction? Jason Boog July 9, 2008 Imagine Hunter S. Thompson cross-bred with Instapundit, and then ask yourself--what can the art of creative nonfiction learn from citizen journalism? The first genre traditionally focuses on highly-polished, long-form literary journalism, while the other genre depends on blogged, rapid-fire community... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 8	"Which one of the internets do we hack?" : Writing Fake Works of Art Jason Boog July 8, 2008 What if bombastic director Michael Bay wrote the next Batman movie? Spill.com has a fake script that imagines how Bay would screw up the upcoming installment (The Dark Knight) of the comic book franchise, including this choice quote: "GENERAL: Okay,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 7	Publishing Spotted: Lost Books Jason Boog July 7, 2008 Can television save the book?Attempting to answer that strange question, ABC has a brand new Lost Book Club--looking at how the popular show features some of our favorite books (like Philip K. Dick's Valis and Madeleine L’Engle's A Wrinkle in... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Matchmaker Make Me A Match Jason Boog July 7, 2008 Up until now, authors and publishing companies did all the work of finding people to review their books. But what if literary bloggers could find books to review all by themselves? In Canada, the new service Mini Book Expo is... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 3	Why Click When You Can Subscribe? Jason Boog July 3, 2008 As we shuffle off for a long holiday weekend, I'd like to remind you to stop clicking on my website.I'm serious. Why click on this website every day when you can subscribe, via email or RSS feed? Let a computer... Continue Reading Posted at 1:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 2	Dueling Comments: Pop Will Eat Itself Jason Boog July 2, 2008 The media blog Fimoculous has become one of my favorite reads lately. It's easy-to-read, well-written and keeps all of Rex Sorgatz's webby projects together in one place. Every once in awhile, the comments section lights up with some glittering moments... Continue Reading Posted at 1:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jul 1	Zines! Zines! Zines! Jason Boog July 1, 2008 Please tell me you've read at least one zine in your life.Last week, GalleyCat published an essay by novelist Tim W. Brown about zines. That love poem took me back to my coffeehouse days in high school, paying a... Continue Reading Posted at 1:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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