This week! Books! Certain segments of the book buying and reviewing world have long held that they can say whatever the heck they want about authors, but any authors who respond are by definition “authors behaving badly.” The latest broadside against this dynamic comes from author Kacen Callender, who argues that the “idea that an […]
Stephenie Meyer
Twilight is back! (This week in books)
This week! Books! Twilight is back! Stephenie Meyer revealed that there will indeed be a new Twilight novel on August 4, Midnight Sun, which will retell the series from vampire Edward Cullen’s perspective. I for one am quite curious how he felt attending high school when he was over one hundred years old. I have […]
There is no such thing as an overnight success story
It seems like there are authors who come out of nowhere, get bazillion dollar book deals, make bazillions more dollars after the book comes out, and ride off into the sunset of legends. We’ve all heard of Stephenie Meyer dreaming up Twilight, dashing it off in three months, and the rest is history. It’s tempting […]
The Temptation of Thinking Someone Has Made It
One of the corollaries of the “if only” game is that there are some writers out there who could not possibly have reason to worry about anything as they have achieved a level of success that is unsurpassed, and who represent the pinnacle of the writerly world. Examples include King, Stephen; Rowling, J.K.; Meyer, Stephenie. […]
This Week in Publishing 9/10/10
This Week in Publishing! First up, just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I’ve been experiencing some e-mail technical difficulties and some queries have disappeared into the great electronic ether. My policy is still to respond to all queries, so if you sent me a query and didn’t hear back within a week […]
Franzen, FREEDOM and the Era of the Blockbuster
You may have heard from, oh, I don’t know, the Time Magazine cover or the Vogue profile or the rave reviews or the Picoult/Weiner spat or the author video where Franzen says he doesn’t like author videos or the fact that the President of the United States was spotted with it….. anyway, you might have […]
