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August 15, 2013
Reshared post from Kristine Kathryn Rusch:
The biggest news in publishing of the summer is the merger of Random House and Penguin-says the writer KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH.I agree and have been saying it since the merger happened. She explains why this merger is such a big deal and what it means if you want to get published now that the merger is done.She writes, "Look real hard at the movie industry, because its focus on weekend box office should look familiar. To see the impact this kind of thinking—the short-term thinking—has on creative endeavors...""Of the 15,000 titles that Random Penguin will publish in 2014, most of them will have “blockbuster” potential, and will be similar to what has been done before. They’ll also be tweaked and prodded and forced into molds that the books might not have been involved in."The conclusion is that the Big Five publishers will use Amazon and the rest of the Indie author platforms to cherry pick, but she has a warning, this not the publishing business you grew up with.
Original Post from Kristine Kathryn Rusch:
Today's Business Blog focuses on the biggest publishing news of the summer--in my opinion, anyway:
August 14, 2013
If you ever wondered what are some of the most prestigious and highly rated literary Colleges, these...
If you ever wondered what are some of the most prestigious and highly rated literary Colleges, these are on the top of the list.
How do you write about a future dystopian world when that dystopia screams, I have arrived.
Don't let...
How do you write about a future dystopian world when that dystopia screams, I have arrived.
Don't let me interrupt your local news, but here is news you will not see, yet, it is there, nonetheless.
Once great cities are now falling with the acid rain. The once great of city Detroit, home of the automobile, home of cultural sound of Motown is destroyed. The city of Cleveland lives in ruin. The city and the great secret of the city of Chicago is that it is lost in total destruction, disintegrated physically, morally, socially, and economically. A cause of total destruction in a free falling act of a failure to thrive as if attacked by hordes of metastasizing legions.
"For the past decade, Chicago has been enduring a violence epidemic, with a death toll in the thousands and casualties mirroring the losses experienced by the US army in Iraq war over the same period."
This is an intimate video portrait of life in South and West Chicago and what is a virus they can not contain known by no name, but dystopian.
So I ask you once again, is the dystopia once written now happening and doesn't it change the the dystopian narrative?
Don't let me interrupt your local news, but here is news you will not see, yet, it is there, nonetheless.
Once great cities are now falling with the acid rain. The once great of city Detroit, home of the automobile, home of cultural sound of Motown is destroyed. The city of Cleveland lives in ruin. The city and the great secret of the city of Chicago is that it is lost in total destruction, disintegrated physically, morally, socially, and economically. A cause of total destruction in a free falling act of a failure to thrive as if attacked by hordes of metastasizing legions.
"For the past decade, Chicago has been enduring a violence epidemic, with a death toll in the thousands and casualties mirroring the losses experienced by the US army in Iraq war over the same period."
This is an intimate video portrait of life in South and West Chicago and what is a virus they can not contain known by no name, but dystopian.
So I ask you once again, is the dystopia once written now happening and doesn't it change the the dystopian narrative?
August 13, 2013
Where Are All Literary Masterworks of Poverty and Politics?
I often hear this now. Said wispily and ...
Where Are All Literary Masterworks of Poverty and Politics?
I often hear this now. Said wispily and as if to return to some earlier time in one's life, or a fond remembrance of that time, tinged with sadness at its having passed.
Adam Kirsch writes in Bloomberg, in apiece titled, “How the Great Depression Spawned Literary Masterworks”, writes, “The Great Depression was one of the most desperate periods in U.S. history, and one of the most important in American literature.” He opines, he asks why the most recent bad times have not evoked a similar kind of literary response. But he is looking in the wrong places.
“What did the storytellers of the Depression know that our own writers don’t? And what can we learn from the writers of the 1930s about poverty and politics, literature and society?” He is not wrong in asking these questions, but he is wrong like so many in his assumption. He is just looking where literary masterworks of poverty and politics where written in the 1930’s, but not where they are today.
I believe those kind of literary responses are there buried deep in independent publishing that did not exist back then, but out of necessity lives and thrives in our time. What are missing are the facts relating to this particular recent history of economics. We were sold out and the banks were bailed out. However, this reality has given an old story a new twist.
I often hear this now. Said wispily and as if to return to some earlier time in one's life, or a fond remembrance of that time, tinged with sadness at its having passed.
Adam Kirsch writes in Bloomberg, in apiece titled, “How the Great Depression Spawned Literary Masterworks”, writes, “The Great Depression was one of the most desperate periods in U.S. history, and one of the most important in American literature.” He opines, he asks why the most recent bad times have not evoked a similar kind of literary response. But he is looking in the wrong places.
“What did the storytellers of the Depression know that our own writers don’t? And what can we learn from the writers of the 1930s about poverty and politics, literature and society?” He is not wrong in asking these questions, but he is wrong like so many in his assumption. He is just looking where literary masterworks of poverty and politics where written in the 1930’s, but not where they are today.
I believe those kind of literary responses are there buried deep in independent publishing that did not exist back then, but out of necessity lives and thrives in our time. What are missing are the facts relating to this particular recent history of economics. We were sold out and the banks were bailed out. However, this reality has given an old story a new twist.
August 11, 2013
A writer explores the inner lives of America's lost children and the people trying to save them
“To...
A writer explores the inner lives of America's lost children and the people trying to save them
“To the End of June” is part history and overview, part in-depth portraits of foster children and parents. Beam, although never a foster child herself, left her emotionally disturbed mother’s house at the age of 14 and never saw her mom again. Then, at 29, she became a foster parent, taking in a former student, a transgender teenager she now considers her daughter.
“To the End of June” is part history and overview, part in-depth portraits of foster children and parents. Beam, although never a foster child herself, left her emotionally disturbed mother’s house at the age of 14 and never saw her mom again. Then, at 29, she became a foster parent, taking in a former student, a transgender teenager she now considers her daughter.
A writer explores the inner lives of America's lost children and the people trying to save them
August 10, 2013
Are we in the midst of a writing revolution?
Yes, because technology has changed how we communicate ...
Are we in the midst of a writing revolution?
Yes, because technology has changed how we communicate in writing.
Gene Budig & Alan Heaps explains why and it's deeper implications for the future.
The landscape is shifting in four ways.
1) More people are writing more frequently and in more formats.
2) Written words are no longer static.
3) The rules of writing are in flux.
4) Digital writing may be creating a different cognitive processes.
Yes, because technology has changed how we communicate in writing.
Gene Budig & Alan Heaps explains why and it's deeper implications for the future.
The landscape is shifting in four ways.
1) More people are writing more frequently and in more formats.
2) Written words are no longer static.
3) The rules of writing are in flux.
4) Digital writing may be creating a different cognitive processes.
Technology has changed how we communicate in writing.
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August 9, 2013
This quote, by Keanu Reeves, is part of an anthology called Wretched Writing.
“I draw a hot sorrow...
This quote, by Keanu Reeves, is part of an anthology called Wretched Writing.
“I draw a hot sorrow bath in my despair room.”
I have been looking for some examples of writing, real abominations that if words were people they'd be under arrest. Up until this article I could not publicly do it without offending the people who wrote them, but since they are public I feel they can be a real teaching moment for some and a learning moment to others. I hope that some here will take this opportunity to have fun and take apart the examples and better explain why they are such bad mistakes.
“I draw a hot sorrow bath in my despair room.”
I have been looking for some examples of writing, real abominations that if words were people they'd be under arrest. Up until this article I could not publicly do it without offending the people who wrote them, but since they are public I feel they can be a real teaching moment for some and a learning moment to others. I hope that some here will take this opportunity to have fun and take apart the examples and better explain why they are such bad mistakes.
While not having the power of will or choice to combat the policy of petty fears, China's explosive...
While not having the power of will or choice to combat the policy of petty fears, China's explosive growth over the past two decades show what happens as we stand there fiddling with our "junk".
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