Romance novels for women get frankly sexual - Yahoo! News

More sex in books. The sheet hits the fan!

Romance novels for women get frankly sexual - Yahoo! News

Pub Rants

Another great agent blog to bookmark. It's fantastic that these agents take the time to post their thoughts to help writers. Really, anything you glean from these sites is gold.

Pub Rants

Contest Tip Sheets

Thought this was a useful article.

Contest Tip Sheets

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Mockingbird author steps out of shadows

Great article about Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird."


Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Mockingbird author steps out of shadows

From The Belly of The Blog

Want to get inside a literary agent's head? Mosey along to Miss Snark's blog and read "The Tipping Point." 10+ reasons why she passes on manuscripts.

The Biggest of 2005: The 200 Bestselling Books of the Year

The Biggest of 2005: The 200 Bestselling Books of the Year

Coal Miners Deaths

In honor of the twelve coal miners who lost their lives and the one who lays in a coma, I wanted to post this quote by George Orwell.


"The comforts of civilisation, the light and heat we take for granted, depend on men toiling deep below the earth's surface to mine narrow seams of coal."


My heart goes out to the families.

Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile

Interesting experiment conducted by The British Sunday Times.

Typed manuscripts of the opening chapters of Naipaul’s In a Free State and a second novel, Holiday, by Stanley Middleton, were sent to 20 publishers and agents.

None appears to have recognised them as Booker prizewinners from the 1970s that were lauded as British novel writing at its best. Of the 21 replies, all but one were rejections.

StoryPilot's Science Fiction & Fantasy Market Search Engine

Found a great magazine search site. You can do a specific search and then scroll down to see a list of magazines. This site also allows you to save your search list in a file. You don't need to pay a dime to join. Just create a user name and password. I don't know how often the magazines are updated.

Miss Snark, the literary agent

This blog is a must read for writers. It is written by an anonymous agent and offers advice on marketing, synopsis writing, and answers writers questions on agents, as well as other writing related issues. The questions are posted by writers seeking advice and answered by Miss Snark. The site is informative and amusing.

How is that possible? You ask. There's only one way to find out.

Go to the damn site and see for yourself.

village voice > vls > North by Northeaster by Jenny Davidson

The Sherlock Holmes quote: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," encapsulates Stephen King's latest novella, "North by Northeasater."

Read entire article by clicking on the title link.

'Potter' series casts a spell over entire genre - Yahoo! News

Science fiction and fantasy writers be heartened by this article, appearing in USA Today. It appears that sales of science fiction and fantasy have jumped 8.5% in the past five years.

Click on the link and find out why.

village voice > vls > Quit Lit by Izzy Grinspan

With the recent publication of Lauren Weisberger's second novel, Everyone Worth Knowing, job-horror fiction has officially come into its own—but only for women.

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I can relate to job horror. Work sucks the life from you like a vampire.

ABC News: How to Write a Novel in 30 Days

Nov. 17, 2005 — Are you convinced you have a novel in you but just don't want to spend all that time and mental effort to actually work on it?

If that's the case, you could join 60,000 other intrepid, wanna-be novelists competing in National Novel Writers Month (NaNoWriMo for short) — a sprint to finish a 50,000-word novel from scratch during the month of November.