Posted in Interviews on August 4th, 2007 4 Comments »
We interrupt your regularly scheduled weekend break to tell you there’s an interview up with Philip Pullman at the Literary Review site. Pullman, best known for his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, is currently hard at work on a sequel, called The Book of Dust.
The interview delves into a lot of theological questions, but […]
Posted in Interviews on August 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Detective novels often have a studiously old-fashioned air about them. Rooted in a genre that celebrates (and invented) the anti-hero, the modern version more often than not is a story set in an urban environment of gritty realism, where profanities fly and the protagonist carries a huge chip on his shoulders.
Author Ed Lynskey manages to avoid […]
Posted in Book Talk, REAL WORLD, Business on August 2nd, 2007 7 Comments »
We are very pleased to bring you our latest guest blogger, Eric von Rothkirch, blogmaster for the must-read blog Quantum Storytelling. We love Eric’s approach to craft and his willingness to explore the unboxed aspects of the publishing business.
Eric was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He grew up on a diet of 80s action […]
Posted in Book Talk, REAL WORLD, Inspirations on August 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
Before I let too much time pass, I want to share some news from around the web and blogosphere with you.
First, join me in welcoming a site called Write Attitude, put together by some friends from my goal-in-a-month group. There’s a cool opening video on the site, loaded with inspiring quotes and positive vibes. You’ll […]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
First, the big news. We are pleased to announce that Ray Rhamey, of the incomparable blog Flogging the Quill, is joining WU as a contributor. Ray’s forte is editing, and as regular readers of his blog know, he’s as sharp as they come in terms of rooting out banal writing. Ray also consented to do one of our first […]
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Upcoming interviews with: award-winning YA novelist and author of Writing and Selling the Young Adult Novel, KL Going; agent and author of A Dash of Style, Noah Lukeman; author of touch-of-magic novels Garden Spells and The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen; fellow blogger and author of the soon-to-be-released resource, Get Known Before the Book Deal, the original Writer Mama, Christina Katz; agent with L. Perkins Agency, Jenny Rappaport; and the one, the only Diana Gabaldon -- yes, WU readers, you read that right -- bestselling author of historical genre-bending novels, including the one that started it all, Outlander.
