Posted on July 30, 2006 by Meg

Bibliophiles and English majors know the story about Jack Kerouac writing On the Road in a few weeks, without paragraphs or any breaks. Even feeding a new sheet of paper into the typewriter interupted his creative flow, so he wrote on long scrolls of paper, and taped them together.
 Now Viking Penguin will publish this original version, [...]

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Meg

A few weeks ago, my brother and future sister-in-law sent me a package from the states. It included a collection of Edgar Allen Poe short stories. I’ve always been a Poe fan, but I’ve only rerecently discovered gems like The Purloined Letter. If you thought Poe only wrote macabre buried-alive stories, you should check out his detective stories, they’re [...]

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Marsha James

Some of the best selling non-fiction novels are still doing great offline as well as on. In the case of Godless I definitely have to say controversy works but it is not a book that I would read.
Below is the top 4 books that have sold the most online copies recently.
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
An Inconvenient [...]

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

So today’s the day I send hundreds of pages proposals & clips to my agent. I must admit, getting all this stuff together wasn’t as simple as I’d thought it would be…
The articles I’d published in magazines needed to be copied on a color copier–easy enough. But the articles I’d placed in e-zines and e-newsletters [...]

Posted on July 17, 2006 by Marsha James

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little [...]

Posted on July 17, 2006 by Marsha James

Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana-The Guards, Ireland’s police force-and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland’s best private investigator, not to mention it’s first-Irish [...]

Posted on July 17, 2006 by Marsha James

Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women [...]

Posted on July 16, 2006 by Marsha James

“Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the [...]

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Marsha James

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down’s syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second [...]

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Sarah White

I’ll have to admit I’m a bit of a grammar geek. I usually refer to myself as a word nerd. I’m a professional editor as well as being a writer, so words, and the correct usage of words, are my business.
Because I’m more than a little obsessed with all things wordy, I can’t resist reading [...]