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By Kathleen Bolton | December 5, 2007 |
Snow day in the Northeast yesterday. Hurrah! I had a guilt-free day at home working on my wip. I love it when that happens.
Therese works hard on WU’s Google Notebook page, and I want to point out again what a timesaving resource this is for those interested in keeping up with the latest news in publishing. If you haven’t already bookmarked this link or RSS feed, please feel free to do so. If you did, you’d see that:
- SFWA members are locked in a philosophical dispute about webscabs (I know! I never heard the term either, but I loooove the word–the idea, not so much). Putative “webscabs” are writers who publish their work online and give it away free. One camp views the free distribution as undercutting those writers who choose not to have their work available online, while the other camp is furious that anyone would have the right to dictate what they do with their own intellectual property–and call them ‘scabs’ to boot. Juicy isn’t the word for this one.
- Time Magazine interviews Norah Roberts, and she sucks at spelling too.
- Amazon introduces a new digital e-book reader, the Kindle, and buzz is that it will revolutionize novel downloading. At $400 a pop, I’m not so certain it will.
More goodies await at the Notebook. Write on, people, and stay warm!
UPDATE: Just found this great interview with Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials trilogy, on what he really thinks of the film adaptation.
Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She writes under a variety of pseudonyms, including Ani Bolton.
She has written two novels as Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter–both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President’s teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins, and Tamara Blake, for the novel Slumber.
Thanks for the links, Kath, especially for the Pullman interview. Loved this line about what Pullman says was a wrong choice regarding a character:
“I’d described Mrs Coulter’s hair as black. I was clearly wrong. You sometimes are wrong about your characters. She’s blonde. She has to be.”
Scab s!! Love it!!!
Hark thee back to carpet-bagging days. :-)
Ah yes. You can tell which camp I’m in by the fact I’ll never join the SFWA or WGA.
They are like Home Owners Associations. They take your money and then have the nerve to tell you what to do. With *your* house.
I believe in individualism and ownership. To the degree that I won’t buy into a scheme that undermines my independence.
Not everything has to be buy-in/co-op into a mob that tells you what to do.
If I wanted that, I’d join the mafia.
Rant Over. :)