Have a wonderful holiday. A literary note in keeping with the season:
“It is an enduring mystery of English literature: What secrets lie entombed beneath the thick scribbles that Charles Dickens made as he wrote, and rewrote, the 66 pages of “A Christmas Carol” in 1843?” More here with a followup today here.
Carnegie Library
Continuing with our library theme….
Some of us tried to do this as kids. Now you really can. Well, if you have a spare $2,495,000, you can. Perhaps it’s time to buy that lottery ticket.
I find I have mixed feelings about this. Mostly, I’m sad that this is no longer an actual library.
Rose City Sisters is running a flash fiction contest and my friend, Bonnie Schroeder, has a story up. Check it out! (it won’t take long!)
Amazing libraries!
However, they did not include the one from Disney’s Beauty & the Beast!
There are more here.
Here’s one more personal library
Yeah, I’ve been negligent in the writing department, blogging included. Stopping in to congratulate the National Book Award winners, just posted at Omnivoracious:
And because she had such an impact on the world of publishing, I feel compelled to post that Oprah is apparently calling it quits in 2011, for real this time.
Now, I have to figure out how to get my discipline back. It’s become distressingly elusive.
I had the privilege of meeting the legendary Martin Levin at Book Expo a few years back. He’s been teaching at Stanford’s Publishing Courses for Professionals for years. They have been hit by the dramatic budget cuts. He writes about the situation and how they’re trying to keep going on his blog. Scroll down and you’ll learn a lot about the book biz as well as tangential legal issues. You can stay connected and find out what’s going to happen plus a lot of information on publishing here. I hope they ca
Writing is fun again! Yesterday something shifted when I was working on the novel, filling in thin places – things clicked back into place. Helped even more when I took a long walk through Fryman.
Solved a few problems – I tend to write through a draft and leave sections to fill in later, hence the thin parts. The humor has returned and it’s a lot a fun right now.
In the meantime, if you need a laugh, go read Richard Russo’s 
Straight Man; don’t make me tell you again because I’ll keep at it until you read it. It’s that good
From old to new…
First pictures of Barnes and Noble’s new e-reader. 
What’s that, Kindle? You hear footsteps? The light at the top is a nice touch. I like my Kindle, but I’ll go have a look when the e-reader arrives in stores. It debuts October 20 in New York.
National Book Award finalists have been announced. Which fiction finalist do you favor? Haven’t read them (yet), so no comment. I do have a couple of them on my Kindle, but first I need to finish my own novel. Back to work.
The typewriter that I learned to type on (no, I am not that old. I just love this typewriter and electrics and computers don’t come close).
Here it is:
Isn’t it beautiful?
Yes, yes it is. You can find them on eBay for about $25 and pay a LOT more for perfectly restored ones at MyTypewriter.
When I tried typing after years on computers, it was harder than I remembered! Not sure how much I will use it, but I love, love, love it.
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