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Up-and-coming writers want to hear how down the line things will get easier. Heck, I want to hear that. Thus, when I sent my current novel-in-progress, Ten Days to a Bad Habit, to my agent Jim McCarthy in New York, I wanted to hear how my first mystery was an amazing delight, staying true to [...]
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The Brightest Moon of the Century, a comic novel about Edward, a young Minnesotan blessed with “experience,” has landed at the top of three 2009 Best Books lists. Edward needs a place in the universe, but he also wants an understanding of women. He stumbles into romance in high school and college, whirls into a [...]
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Backword Books author Christopher Meeks will be reading from his new novel, The Brightest Moon of the Century, on Sunday, July 19th, 7 p.m. at the famous Book Soup bookstore in West Los Angeles. He’ll be joined by four fellow UCLA Extension instructors who will also read brief selections from their new novels. They will [...]
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Part of my past includes stints as a book reviewer, first at the Los Angeles Daily News, then for the now-defunct Herald-Examiner. After that, I reviewed theatre for eight years with Daily Variety. I never saw reviewing as a sport. I wasn’t out to “get” anyone or to have fun at his or her expense. [...]
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Writing about publishing isn’t the only thing we do here. It’s also a place to talk about books of all sorts. I happen to be a huge J.D. Salinger fan, mainly because he influenced me so positively when I was younger. Recently, I’ve come to rethink his earlier and later work.
His 1951 iconic novel [...]
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I did not intend to be a publisher. I intended to be a writer. My first job out of grad school, however, was as a senior editor for a small publisher. Everything you heard about publishing—the stress, the long hours, low pay—it’s true. Yet it was fun to see our books land on bestseller lists. [...]
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