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Critics are getting less cruel. AlasFrom The Economist: It is delicious to know that one reviewer called John Keats’s poetry “drivelling idiocy”. It is more pleasing yet that...
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VenalityDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas...
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‘Does it really matter who wrote it?’: the rise of ghostwritten celebrity fictionFrom The Guardian: As long as there have been celebrity memoirs, there have been ghostwriters. It will have surprised no one to learn...
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The ripple effects following layoffs and shuttered imprintsFrom Nathan Bransford: Yesterday I took the Surfliner down to Comic-Con in San Diego to moderate an excellent panel with film literary...
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Don’t be a robot! Think for yourself!From The Critic: A few years ago, I wrote a short biography (for purposes of internal family consumption) of my great grandfather. Born in...
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Blogging Ideas For BeginnersFrom Write to Done: Identifying blogging ideas for beginners is one of the most open-ended, arguably enjoyable, tasks you will have as a new...
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Computer MisbehaviorPG had problems getting into TPV today, so he’ll do more posting tomorrow.
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Writers, Are You Breaking the Cardinal Rule?From Writers in the Storm: Ah, the euphoria of holding one’s own book. Nothing compares, does it? In that moment, the months (or years) of...
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Theoderic the GreatFrom The Wall Street Journal: If there was a Roman version of “1066 and All That,” the satirical romp through English history, the year 476...
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Authors Join the Brewing Legal Battle Over AIFrom Publisher’s Weekly: Authors have now joined the growing ranks of concerned creators suing tech developers over their much-hyped...
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I’m surprised he doesn’t send Christmas cards“I’m surprised he doesn’t send Christmas cards,” Antonio said. “I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed vellum cards,...
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A man’s penmanshipA man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste...
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How to Make a Cliché Work for YouFrom Almost an Author: In middle grade novels, do you know what gets my goat? Stories riddled with clichés. Let’s address the elephant...
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The Art of Handwriting and Letter Writing: A Connection to Our Past and a Glimpse into the SoulFrom Culture.org: In the age of technology, the art of handwriting is becoming increasingly rare. Gone are the days when we would sit down...
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A pilgrimage to the mecca of mediumshipNot exactly to do with books, but certainly to do with genres. From The Economist: The gathering is like an auction crossed with a game...
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Almost no one goes home eagerly anticipating junk mailAlmost no one goes home eagerly anticipating junk mail in their mailbox. Almost no one reads People magazine for the ads. Almost no one looks...
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The Merch-ification of Book PublishingFrom Esquire: to your local bookstore, hitting the library, or logging on to Amazon. For others, however, it involves opening up a...
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On Posthumous Editing: Should Books be Edited for Contemporary Audiences?From Book Riot: What do you remember best about your favorite childhood book? Is it the setting, the characters, the descriptions of food?...
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Gadgets and Gizmos That Inspired Adam SmithFrom Reason: Pocket gadgets were all the rage in Adam Smith’s day. Their popularity inspired one of the most paradoxical, charming, and...
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3 Reasons Refrain in Poetry is Relevant to Freelance WritersFrom Making a Living Writing: What is Refrain in Poetry? A refrain in poetry is a repeated word, line, or phrase that appears...
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Character Type and Trope Thesaurus: GrotesqueFrom Writers Helping Writers: Grotesque DESCRIPTION : A grotesque is a character whose deformities mask their likable personality and...
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Publishing is a very mysterious businessPublishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do...
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The Right Publisher for the Right BookFrom Publisher’s Weekly: When my publishing career began in the late 1990s, a period that I refer to as the golden age of New York...
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Canada’s Crisis Triggers Downsizing at Access CopyrightFrom Publishing Perspectives: Today, we include in our rights edition an urgent story that’s not focused on translation- and...
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AI WritingPG got to feeling a bit better as the day commenced and decided to try Microsoft’s browser, Edge, with Microsoft’s version of AI...
