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- Wed April 21st, 2010, 11:23 pm
- Forum: Book Buddies
- Topic: The King's Mistress by Emma Campion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6640
- Tue April 20th, 2010, 5:28 pm
- Forum: The Writing Business
- Topic: How did you get your agent?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1673
I was lucky; maybe something to do with (so far) working on NF rather than novels. I've worked with three agents, and all have been located via networking or have ended up contacting me. My current guy, who sold the book that's coming out in June, knew someone who knew me. He was looking specificall...
- Mon April 19th, 2010, 7:53 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: The best thing today
- Replies: 2019
- Views: 136303
- Mon April 19th, 2010, 7:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Historical novel isn't fact-based, after all
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1065
- Mon April 19th, 2010, 7:17 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: getting bullied on youtube for being American
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1022
I'm a dual citizen, with the right to describe myself either as an American or a Canadian. Since I'm living in the United States, I describe myself as American. How other people react to that is their issue and their problem. If they can't see past their own preconceptions to the individual, that is...
- Mon April 19th, 2010, 1:56 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Another Amazon review kerfuffle
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1135
I see a divorce looming... Figes's book was excellent (The Whisperers, I mean); haven't read Polonsky's. Just wild... I know I got a few comments about some books I suggested as alternate/additional reading to a book about reopening Stalin's archives. I think one of them was by Service, which prompt...
- Mon April 19th, 2010, 1:49 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: April 2010: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 308
- Views: 17636
I definitely wouldn't read the two series in close conjunction -- they cover so much of the same territory yet are so different in style & approach. Pargeter's pace is a lot slower, but I still enjoyed the in-depth character studies. That said, I go through spates of loving her books and not being a...
- Mon April 19th, 2010, 1:40 am
- Forum: Member Reading Logs - 2010
- Topic: Chatterbox's 2010 Reading Log!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4926
Second half of April: Non-fiction: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux The Big Short by Michael Lewis The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson To Begin the World Over Again by John Hulsman Nine Lives by William Dalrymple Fiction: An Empty De...
- Sat April 17th, 2010, 8:21 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: April 2010: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 308
- Views: 17636
- Sat April 17th, 2010, 8:19 am
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Volcanic Ash Disrupting Travel
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4601
Wow, if the Norwegian govt is being run by iPad, just imagine what that means for Steve Jobs... ! There's a fascinating book about a big change in the dark ages called Catastrophe -- I think the author's surname is Keys. He writes about years of plague and famine, and tries to understand what might ...