Hang in there, kiddo

Worried about how long it's taking you to get published? Here's a story that should make you feel... better. It took this poor lady eight years to get her book published. Eight years. That's 100 percent of her life.


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Hospital made my boy a poet

Damn, one would hope the experience would have made him want to be a doctor... A poet? What organ do you have to have removed for THAT? Oh, yeah, the brain. That's like taking your kid to hockey games all his life in hopes of raising an NHLer and ending up parent of that idiot who runs up and down the steps with a trumpet and paints Go Leafs Go on his belly.



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Can't help but toss Zoe Trope's "Please Don't Kill The Freshman" into the mix. Kevin Sampsell, founder of Powell's (Mecca) made it all happen for her, and now she's touted by Eggers, Safran Foer and so on...

http://www.zoe-trope.com

"...not necessarily a good thing"?

Much preferable to today's pop culture alternatives, no?

Hot uncensored teens!

More and more teens are venturing into publishing. This is not necessarily a good thing.

Why so many books by teens?

Byron Preiss, who published Resnikoff's book for ibooks, said he thinks it's "a byproduct of the computer age."

Computers have offered precocious authors advantages as mundane as spell-checking, Preiss said, and "as pervasive as access to trends and information, creating more mature teenagers who are able to do much more mature work than previous generations."

The quality of the writing varies widely, but the writer's youth is a selling point.

"If a good novel is written by a teen, there's a story in it," said Beverly Horowitz, vice president and publisher for Bantam Delacorte Dell Books for Young Readers.

It's these outlying punks who keep the age of the average first novel down to 40. I just gots to believe that.



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Dirty Dancing with Wolves sounds like it might actually be fun.

Eeek!

"If," Paul? Of course it has:

http://www.songlyricsdb.com/d/dirtydancing/

If "Dirty Dancing" was ever made into a book, it would be all three.

"There are roughly three kinds of book available to writers in their twenties: Look Mum, I'm Dancing, All Men Are Bastards, and What I Did on My Holidays."

I know one of each of these! Some of them are two! Oh, my friends... "Then there is that almost-forgotten figure: the writer, who stays at home, keeps regular hours, does the work, accumulates a readership and is virtually invisible." But I also know several of these, though they're mostly in their thirties...



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Cuuuuute!

Awwwww!



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Anyone else feel bad for Mary-Lou Zeitoun? Her novel, 13, which is about a rebellious 13 year old girl, was optioned for a film. Now this. Bad mojo.

The (non-Anime) Movie that Gave a Generation of Pedophiles a Reason to Go to the Movies Alone Again...

...was actually co-written by a 13-year-old.



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