Category : blah blah blah | Posted : Mar 31st, 2008
I’ve gotten into the habit lately of dreaming that I’m at my office, working. I then wake up feeling like I’ve already been at work for hours. Sometimes I even go to work and can’t remember if I really did something or if I just dreamed it the night before. If it turns out I […]
Category : news | Posted : Mar 18th, 2008
How could I have not known about this?
Category : writing | Posted : Mar 17th, 2008
I was just reading through the first 75 pages of SP before sending it to a prospective agent and was horrified to find typos! Typos! Only a few…but I regularly lecture people when I find typos in their work. I am one of the most reliable proofreaders at my workplace. I am so ashamed. Especially because I have grammar and spell-checked […]
Category : news | Posted : Mar 15th, 2008
Honey, will you marry… Oh. Never mind…
Reuters
It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.
The luckless 28 year-old’s dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air.
Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had […]
Category : uncategorized | Posted : Mar 14th, 2008
In Hollywood, pregnant is the new black.
(Unwed pregnancy is the new bling. Sparkly, sparkly, look at me!!)
Minnie Driver confirms she’s pregnant
Minnie Driver says she’s got the bump.
The 38-year-old actress and singer confirmed during an appearance Thursday on NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” that she’s pregnant with her first child.
Leno joked that she […]
Category : agent search, writing | Posted : Mar 13th, 2008
Every now and then during the publishing process an agent or editor will ask you to make changes to your existing MS before they will represent it. It actually happened with my first agent and we spent months revising and rewriting LLThat prior to even signing our contract together. Later in our relationship, when she was […]
Gangland memoir is fabricated: publisher
Tue Mar 4, 2008 3:37pm EST
By Emily Chasan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir about a mixed-raced girl growing up in a gang-ridden neighborhood of Los Angeles, is a fabrication and the 19,000 distributed copies of the book will be recalled, its publisher said on Tuesday.
Author Margaret […]
Category : agent search, celebrity babble, writing | Posted : Mar 1st, 2008
It’s weird not being in the middle of a writing project. It actually makes me uncomfortable not to be working on something, but lately I just don’t feel like it. I’m not sure what I want to devote my creativity to now that I’m done with SP and pages of it are flying around the USA […]
