I just read the most delightful review of The Da Vinci Code [movie] in The New Yorker. A few months ago, a friend of mine commented that the characters in The Da Vinci Code weren’t as deep at the ink they were written with. (Best. Comment. Ever.) This review shared that sentiment. […]
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At first glance, Overheard in New York may seems completely unrelated to writing. However, I would venture to say that it’s one of the best things to happen to writer’s block in a very, very long time.
When I’m stuck on a creative project there’s nothing I like better than to go to […]
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Note to self: One day is not enough to do Book Expo. In fact, I don’t even know if the whole three days is enough to do Book Expo. I planned to do a repeat performance of my ridiculously early arrival on Wednesday morning at the Fourth Annual BEA Writer’s Digest Conference, but […]
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Yesterday’s Pitch Slam at the Fourth Annual BookExpo America Writer’s Digest Conference was an amazing experience. There were 23 agents to choose from, covering nonfiction, fiction, and children’s writing. I spoke with three (the lines were loooong).
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one agent, was completely not helpful. Unfortunately, […]
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In addition to all the fun I had at the conference attending the sessions and getting some expert advice from people whose work I really respect, I also met up with a ton of great people just moseying around:
When I arrived, I chatted with the diamond mines guy while waiting to meet up […]
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Today marked the Fourth Annual BEA Writer’s Digest Conference, which was held at the DC Convention Center — which, as I learned, is conveniently located off the DC Metro’s Yellow Line at the Mt. Vernon Square stop.
The thing about the oh-so-convenient location is that I waaaaay overestimated the amount of time it would […]
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It just goes to show that professional organization memberships can really pay off…
At the beginning of my second year as a member of the Council of Science Editors, I was invited to join the editorial board for the organization’s bimonthly journal, Science Editor.
My latest article, “Paperless Proofreading: A Publishing Revolution,” appears in the […]
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The senior teller handed the trainee a wrapper and said, “Make sure there are a hundred ones here.”
The trainee carefully slipped the wrapper off and started counting: “One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven.” Then she stopped, rewrapped the bills and handed them back to the senior teller, saying, “They look good so far.”
It’s tempting […]
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…please do a little research too if you can. The reason I bring this up is that I got the weirdest phone call today from a freelancer looking for advice from an “expert.” I get these calls all the time, so it’s not a big deal or even all that unusual. This […]
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Yesterday I learned something surprising about myself. When going to work doesn’t involve leaving the house, I’m a lot more reluctant to take a sick day than I have been when going to work meant driving 20 minutes to the train station, walking a mile, sitting on the train for anywhere from 1 to […]
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This whole plagiarism thing has gone too far. I’ve been following the Opal Mehta fiasco pretty closely, and last week’s New York Times article “A Second Ripple in the Plagiarism Scandal“put me over the edge.
The article, prompted by observations from an as-yet-unnamed reader, suggests that Kaavya Viswanathan, author of the recently controversial […]
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For the first time in six years, my web host went down this afternoon. I suppose it’s possible — heck, even likely — that they’ve gone down before, but it just happened to be at a time that I didn’t need to use my website or e-mail, so I didn’t notice it.
The […]
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