Writers and Editors
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Writers and Editors (Pat McNees's blog)Authors' moral rights: Don’t Touch ‘A Moveable Feast’July 21, 2009
"BOOKSTORES are getting shipments of a significantly changed edition of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece, “A Moveable Feast,” first published posthumously by Scribner in 1964," writes A.E. Hotchner in an Op Ed piece, (Don't Touch 'A Moveable Feast'), for The New York Times. (more…)
Abandon HopefullyJuly 17, 2009
I used to have a little sign above my office door that said "Abandon hopefully all ye who enter here," and for years I've tried not gritting my teeth when people said things like, "Hopefully it won't rain." My poor daughter grew up with this bias against using "hopefully" in the sense of "it is hoped," (more…)
Memoirs: Is honesty the best policy?July 16, 2009
Graceanne K. Deters includes provocative copy in her website copy about the hidden story of a missionary daughter navigating a maze of religious fanaticism, and the dark side of her early life in (more…)
Self-publishing niche in children's booksJuly 13, 2009
On Nantucket, business journalist Peter Barnes overheard a tourist asking a bookstore owner for a children's book about the island, reports the Washington Post's Elizabeth Chang in Making It: Children's Books (more…)
Will journalism survive? In what form?July 12, 2009
As the advertising-pays-for-print-journalism model stops working, will the blog-for-free-because-it-will-give-you-exposure-and-a-platform model replace it in the name of "citizen journalism"? What are the alternatives? Here are links here to some of the many debates and articles circulating on this topic:
•All Hands On Deck: 4 Editors on the SF Chronicle Implosion (more…) |
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