Books: The Writing Life
Currently listing articles 384-351:
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Book Review: I'd Rather Be In The Studio! The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion by Alyson B. Stanfield— Make your art career thrive with this new book, chock full of straight forward entrepreneurial strategies for success!
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Book Review: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King— "Self-Editing for Fiction Writers" is a fine tutorial, especially for those who cannot or do not have access to writing classes or writing groups.
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Interview with Kage Alan, Author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Sexual Orientation— "It’s important to keep writing stories dealing with characters who’re gay because I’m also demonstrating that there are similarities between them and their straight counterparts."
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Interview with Gail Pool, Author of Faint Praise - The Plight of Book Reviewing in America— "I think that good reviews have always been an endangered species," states Pool.
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Interview with Jennifer Cody Epstein, Author of The Painter from Shanghai— "The struggle to become an artist against seemingly insurmountable odds was something I could relate to."
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Interview with Judi Clark of MostlyFiction.com
— "If someone just wants free books, I recommend that they visit their local library," states Clark.
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Interview with Hilary Williamson of BookLoons
— "We do write negative reviews when called for, but try to always end on a positive note," says Williamson.
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Interview with Linda Mae Baldwin of Road to Romance
— "There is always something good about a book," says Baldwin.
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Interview with Rachel Riebeling Durfor of Rebecca's Reads
— "To most authors, their book is like their baby, and you never tell a mother her newborn baby is kind of, well, unattractive."
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Interview with Lea Schizas of Muse Book Reviews— "Unfortunately, I do believe that many ‘writer friends’ who are reviewers do help fellow writers," states Schizas.
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The Book ATM: Printing Books on Demand— The future of book selling is just around the corner.
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Getting Published: The First Thrill, The Real Deal— Having your first book accepted by a major publisher still packs a delicious thrill.
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Interview with Andrea Sisco of Armchair Interviews
— "We'd like authors to remember: A review is one person's opinion," states Sisco.
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Book Review: The 99th Monkey - A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments by Eliezer Sobel— With Sobel as our guide we laugh, scream, cry, vomit, and refuse to drink the water used to cleanse the guru's sandals.
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Interview with Kevin Eagan of Blogcritics Magazine and There There Kid
— "The Internet is a great place to find some excellent review sites, but it's also rife with gushy fan forums that hold no weight," states
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Interview with Rachel Smith of Bitten by Books— "Honest, subjective reviews garner the trust of your readers and endear them to actually listen and act upon your advice," states Smith.
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Book Review: Composition - A Fiction Writer's Guide for the 21st Century by Linda Lavid— A useful starting point and a reference you’ll find yourself going back to along the way.
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Book Review: The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing by Mayra Calvani and Anne K. Edwards— A user's manual for book reviewers that includes honesty and ethics as among the reviewer's most important tools.
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Interview with Eveline Soors of Euro-Reviews
— "It is unprofessional of an author (or publisher) to directly attack a reviewer for just giving his or her opinion," states Soors.
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Interview with Cheryl C. Malandrinos of The Book Connection
— "Give readers some credit; they don’t need biting marks from a reviewer to learn the areas where the book failed to meet a person’s expectations."
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Interview with Atlantis Prophecy Author Thomas Greanias— "Throughout history villainy has sought the imprimatur of history or myth to justify itself."
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Interview with Phyllis Zimbler Miller, Author of Mrs. Lieutenant— "I’ve wanted to write this book for 38 years, ever since I was a new Mrs. Lieutenant in the spring of 1970 during the Vietnam
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Interview with Katie McNeill of Blogcritics and Katie's Reading
— "I think that if you have a book to review, good or bad, you should review it," says Trattner.
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Interview with Children's Book Illustrator Kim Sponaugle— "Be helpful and concerned for others – if you care for others, usually, God provides someone to help you."
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Interview with Christopher Conlon, Author of Mightnight on Mourn Street— "What I feel passionate about are characters. I get terribly wrapped up in them, in their lives, their troubles, their aspirations."
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Interview with Sharyn McGinty of In The Library Reviews
— "We don’t review to stroke an author’s ego," states McGinty.
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Interview with Stephanie Padilla, New Mystery Reader— "I've had my reviews critiqued just as closely as I've critiqued the book and it's always an eye opener," states Padilla.
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Interview with Alex Moore, Book Review Editor of ForeWord Magazine— "Some reviewers don't have the breadth of background to be aware of what has already been written - what's bad and what's good."
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Interview with Scott Bakker, Author Of The Prince Of Nothing Trilogy and Neuropath— "We are the last of the ancient delusions, soon to be debunked. 'I think, therefore I am' has morphed into 'It thinks, therefore something was.'"
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Interview with Lesa Holstine of Blogcritics Magazine and Lesa's Book Critiques— "To be truly objective, we should probably only read books by authors we don’t know," says Holstine.
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Interview with Bev Walton-Porter of Scribe & Quill— "I don't believe advance review copies should be sold or donated under any circumstance," says Porter.
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Interview with Candis C. Coffee, Author of Mariposa— "I always attempted to find agents, and that was a nightmare," says Coffee.
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Interview with Ron Kavanaugh of Mosaic Literary Magazine— "Some authors should never be published and I think it's a reviewer's responsibility to critique to that extent," states Kavanaugh.
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Interview with Carolyn Howard-Johnson of The New Book Review— "Paying for something undermines its credibility. And, yes, that even applies to the paid reviews that Kirkus does."
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