author meltdown

My dear friend Laura Manivong wrote a blog that gave me the push to post this evening. Seems there was an extreme melt-down today on BigAl’s blog when a self-published author did not like a review she got. Not only did she argue with the reviewer, she argued with commenters, defending grammar and syntax that [...]

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dirty words: author branding

(There are too many “ings” in this post, but read it anyway.) Lots of talk about author branding these days. Oh, Maureen Johnson, look what you hath wrought. Maureen started it all with a Manifesto declaring herself Author-Branding Free. It’s an interesting story about her encounter with a mindless Facebooker, whose sole purpose in life [...]

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getting behind each other

You may have heard that I edit this little weekly info-rag called the Sunflower Scoop.  Every week I read An Abundance of Katherines newsletters, articles, blurbs, tweets, innuendos, rumors…and blogs. I am one jaded internet peruser. So when I find a stupendously brilliant and generous blog entry by a YA author that is a call [...]

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