The obsessions and inspiration of Jamie Brenner, author of The Gin Lovers (St. Martin's Press). Writing as Logan Belle, she is the author of the racy and (sometimes raunchy) Miss Chatterley, The Librarian, and The Blue Angel trilogy. "True love is full of drama." Read more at www.jamiebrenner.com
photo credit: Trevor Laurence
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Write no matter what dramas and conflicts are happening in your life. Storms will rage, lovers will leave, and friends will disagree. Write despite the weather, your broken heart, or bruised feelings. There will never be perfect conditions for writing, when all is peace and tranquility. Chances are once one area of your life smoothes out, another will erupt. Find the equanimity within, no matter the conditions in your outer world.
Jessica Page Morrell, The Writer’s I Ching
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Ann Patchett is the author of my favorite novel of last year, State of Wonder. She also opened an indie bookstore in her hometown when every other bookstore closed. Yesterday, she took on Amazon in her BEA speach:
http://books.usatoday.com/bookbuzz/post/2012-06-07/ann-patchett-takes-on-amazon-in-bookexpo-acceptance-speech/710658/1?csp=34life&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories+(Life+-+Books+-+Top+Stories)&utm_content=Google+Reader
The end of the Orange Prize?
The big news today is the announcement that mobile company Orange will pull its sponsorship of the august literary prize. If you’ve read any of the previous winners listed below, you know this is unfortunate news. Let’s hope the award founders can find a new sponsor soon.
- The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- Home by Marilynne Robinson
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Small Island by Andrea Levy
- Property by Valerie Martin
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
- When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
- A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne
- Larry’s Party by Carol Shields
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
From author Nathan Bransford’s blog about the imperfections but usefulness of social media:
3) There are benefits to using social media beyond sales
If you’re only using social media to sell books you are absolutely using it wrong.
Yes, it can sell books. But the sales benefits are far down on the list of benefits that you will accrue using social media the right way.
More likely: You are making friends, you are learning about what else is out there, you are exchanging knowledge, you are discovering, you are communicating, and opportunities will come your way as a result.
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/05/social-media-is-imperfect-sales-tool.html
