>Magnum Opera
>When Renee Fleming announced that upon consideration she would not, in fact, be singing Norma at the Met (or anyplace else), my first thought was, good call, Renee, but my second was to wonder if...
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>Oh, Santa, Please, Please, Please!
> I told you Martha and I were writing a book, but apparently somebody, um, beat us to it. More than a century ago. The post >Oh, Santa, Please, Please, Please! appeared first on The Horn Book.
View Article>Fiction doing backflips
>In watching the three Bourne movies in close succession over the past week, Richard and I spotted a neat thing we had missed when viewing them at the theater: the final scene of the second movie,...
View Article>Winnie lives
>In my new fascination with readers-as-fans, I’ve been visiting fanfiction.net, where readers become writers, choosing their own adventures for Harry, Hermione, and Bella (is that name an hommage to...
View Article>After all, the dictionary offers plenty of scope.
>Deborah Stevenson sent me this useful chart. The post >After all, the dictionary offers plenty of scope. appeared first on The Horn Book.
View Article>It’s Not How Long You Make It, Is It?
>A tangential question that came up when we were discussing digital review copies made me pull out my calculator. How much longer are books getting? I compared fiction for ages 12 and up reviewed in...
View Article>Think before you write.
>”The red liquid was wine, but it shimmered like blood.”–from The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I’m sure Stephenie Meyer could be trusted to rearrange this simile into its proper order. And can we talk...
View Article>What IS truth?
>We’re working on the March/April Magazine, a special issue about non- and historical fiction. (I’m thinking we should quote Pilate for the issue title but this is mostly Martha’s baby so I’ll have...
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Rooms of their own
Roger, Maurice, Sergio Ruzzier, Frann Preston-Gannon, Ali Bahrampour, Denise Saldutti, photo by Richard Asch I was of course kidding when I characterized the Sendak Fellowship as a reality show, but...
View ArticlePresent Tensions, or It’s All Happening Now
When the 2010 Man Booker shortlist was announced in the UK, the Daily Telegraph ran this headline: “Philip Pullman and Philip Hensher criticise Booker Prize for including present tense novels.” In...
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Helpful tips
Elizabeth has put together an entertaining and most instructive list of ten don’ts for writers submitting manuscripts to agents or editors. (Also entertaining is this take on our listicle culture I...
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