Today's Fresh Blogs...

• New Networking Site for Adoption Writers, Editors

  Published: July 22, 2007, 6:12 pm

  Tags: News Issues And Commentary, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Adoption Writers, Laura Christianson

  be sure to join Adoption Writers so you can network with others who share your interest and expertise. Here's a sample of the slideshow feature on Adoption Writers (these photos were taken last week, during a party my writers' group threw for me in honor of the release of my first book).   Find more photos like this on Adoption Writers

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• Work from home job lead for writers.... Unresearched

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:08 am

  Tags: Home Employment, Jobs, Work At Home, Writers, Writing

  While I was suring the internet, I ran across this job lead for writers. They seem to be paying pretty good. I have not researched this. If you are a writer, this is definitely something to look into.

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• Money Changes Everything: Elizabeth Dewberry Left Robert Olen Butler To Join Ted Turner's Collection

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:43 am

  Tags: Money Changes Everything, Robert Olen Butler, Ted Turner, The Insanest Email Ever, This Modern Age, Top, Wow A Pulitzer, Writers Are Self Dramatizing

  "The novelists Robert Olen Butler, 50, and Elizabeth Dewberry, 32, knew they were meant for each other when they could sit in a room together and not only write but also write well," begins that...

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• An easier way for a writer to get their book published

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:29 pm

  Tags: Books, Get Your Book Published, Writers, Writing, Writing Job

  E-publishing is getting to be very popular. Now, readers can just go online, purchase a book, and start reading in minutes. You can print them out and more! It's very convienant. But for there to be books, there must be writers.

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• No Respect for World’s Worst Poet

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:24 pm

  Tags: I On The News, Writers Writing

  William McGonagall, the World’s Worst Poet (not trademarked, I don’t think, but should be) can’t even get a statue erected in his honor in his hometown. From the AP, via WaPo (”How to Celebrate ‘The World’s Worst Poet’?” by Ben McConville): EDINBURGH, Scotland — The land that gave the world

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• Interesting That He Titled His Last Book Severance

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: I On The News, Writers Writing

  When I read the following news item — excuse me, gossip item — this morning, I nearly did a spit-take. Then I checked the calendar. Nope, not April 1. Elizabeth Dewberry is leaving her husband, Robert Olen Butler, for Ted Turner.* That’s weird enough. What’s weirder is that Butler made the announcement in an e-mail to his

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• Warning: Citizen Kane Spoiler Ahead

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: I On The News, Writers Writing

  In the New Yorker, in his essay about Meryle Secrest’s Shoot the Widow (Knopf) and Nigel Hamilton’s Biography: A Brief History (”Lives of Others“), Louis Menand offers some useful perspective on the biographer’s art. Briefly put: a fact doesn’t explain its subject better simply because it was previously

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• I’ll Bet He Gets a Statue

  Published: August 2, 2007, 10:47 am

  Tags: I On The News, Awards, Writers Writing

  Does a surrealist being named as poet laureate qualify as surreal? (Whoa…dude.) From the New York Times (”Charles Simic, Surrealist with Dark View, Is Named Poet Laureate,” by Motoko Rich): Charles Simic, a writer who juxtaposes dark imagery with ironic humor, is to be named the country's 15th poet laureate by the Librarian of

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• Poetry Reading

  Published: August 5, 2007, 8:58 pm

  Tags: Likely Stories, I On The News, Awards, Writers Writing

  whooooffft. Puh-puh-puh. Is this thing on? Can you HEAR screeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEeee me? Oh. Sorry, folks. brightly Hi, welcome to the first Sunday evening poetry reading sponsored by Likely Stories, with virtual victuals provided by the good folks at Booklist. This week, the literary world is all aflutter over Charles Simic, the latest poet

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• Final chapter of a noir trilogy sees the light after author’s death

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:58 pm

  Tags: Likely Stories, Noms De Plume, Crime Fiction, Writers Writing

  Ghosttown, the third novel in Mercedes Lambert’s trilogy featuring L.A. attorney Whitney Logan, comes out from Five Star this month. Lambert was the pen name of Douglas Anne Munson, who died of cancer in 2003. The first two Logan books, Dogtown and Soultown, will be reissued by Stark House next spring. All three were written in the 1990s.

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• TV and film writers looking for a fair deal

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:21 am

  Tags: Amptp, New York Times, Screenplays, Screenwriters, Television Writers, Tv Writers, Tvwriters, Wga, Writers Guild Of America

  and the AMPTP. TV and film writers want a piece of the DVD sales pie. Barnes seems to think that they're asking for too much because...well, I'll let Barnes explain it himself, in his opening paragraph:Continue reading TV and film writers looking for a fair deal Permalink   Email this     Comments

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• Which Draft Exposed Bart's Private Parts?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 8:07 pm

  Tags: Hollywood, Movies, Producers, Moguls, Writers, Toons, Summer Movies

  Jim Brooks is saying that The Simpsons Movie screenplay went through 166 drafts. Is that a new record for Hollywood? Or is that a new apocalypse?

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• Cultural Observateurs

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:25 am

  Tags: Likely Stories, Books Reviewing, I On The News, Children S Books, Writers Writing

  The two sources I trust the most have finally weighed in on the Harry Potter phenomenon. On the front page of the Book Review, The New York Times printed a review that revealed no major spoilers (although if you’re not aware of the ending by now, it’s time to sublet that granite subterranean flat you’ve been living in). Reviewer

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• Chuck Lorre is going to kill a sitcom star on CSI

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Charlie Sheen, Christine Baranski, Christinebaranski, Chuck Lorre, Chucklorre, Csi Writers, Csiwriters, Cybill, Roseanne Barr, Two Half Men, Two Half Men Writers

  what plot will the CSI writers come up with for Two and a Half Men?) Permalink   Email this     Comments

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• So You Think You Can Write

  Published: August 14, 2007, 11:37 pm

  Tags: Likely Stories, Books As Objects, Writers Writing, Trendspotting

  showcase, how about one for writers? Here are my pitches for this fall’s TV slate. Writing with the Stars: Ghost writers will partner with barely literate celebrities and construct a chapter from a forthcoming tell-all memoir. In the judging round, writers will read from each chapter. Winning entries will have the most outrageous content

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