Posts Tagged ‘nonfiction’

interview with mary schendlinger

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Mary Schendlinger, the Senior editor of Geist Magazine, cartoonist, instructor at UBC, The Writer’s Studio and editor, talks with Kootenay Co-operative Radio (scroll down to show #35) about types of editing, the sort of writing Geist buys, how to find an editor, and the term “creative non-fiction.”

Mary teaches Getting Published at TWS, which is a fantastic class that really can’t recommend highly enough as an introduction to editing, literary agents, Canadian and American publishing and a lot more.

While you’re at it, check out The Writer’s Toolbox on the Geist site.

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monstrously bad sex

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I suppose you feverishly clicked the link, hoping for a titillating account of my friday night. Well, you were tricked! This post isn’t about my bad sex, it’s about yours. Or it’s about you writing about yours. Not that I think you’re the kind of person who has a lot of bad sex, I don’t. But I assume you’ve been around the block a few times. What? I’m not implying anything. You’re the one who… hey look, a contest!

Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), a “weekly online literary journal featuring poetry, fiction, rants and advice from the Giant Squid” is looking for Rants on Monstrously Bad Sex.

The prize is online publication, $33 1/3 dollars (US, I believe), and your name listed as a “$33 1/3 Meritorious Boon Winner”.

Deadline is March 31st, 2008. No entry fee.

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etymology nerds, assemble!

Friday, January 18th, 2008

I love etymology. Whether it’s shattering the dreams of a co-worker who named his baby “mark” in the hope his son would leave the same on the world (the name is from the latin Marcius, from Mars, the God of War) or puzzling out the mysterious “mommixity” (possibly from French mommuck, to annoy) from Birds Without Wings, I dig them words.

Here’s a recent book for fans of the weird word, The Dord, The Diglot and an Avocado or Two, by Anu Garg. (Hat tip to Boing Boing.)

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steven poole’s trigger happy in pdf

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

If you’re like me a few minutes ago, you’re wondering who Steven Poole is. He’s a blogger and the author of Trigger Happy, a non-fiction book on the aesthetics of video games. Anyway. He blogged about the Kindle and after the subsequent fooferaw, has decided to experiment with ebooks by giving his book away as a free PDF for a while.

I haven’t read the book, but here on the litfarm we’re intrigued by authors giving away free, electronic versions of their books, in the hopes it’ll translate into dead-tree sales. Or at least a little bit more glory.

So check it out. If you like it, why not pick up a copy? Or not. That’s ebooks for you.

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