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[11 Feb 2011 | One Comment | ]
‘A Book Long Enough’

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis

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[10 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | ]
‘Books Are Delightful Society’

“Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books, even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.” – William Ewart Gladstone

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[26 Jan 2011 | One Comment | ]
Copywriting: ‘Leave My Prose Alone’

An interesting look at copyediting, written by Carol Fisher Saller: “’Please tell the copyeditor to leave my prose alone.’ That’s an actual author request I encountered in a newly arrived manuscript.”

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[23 Jan 2011 | Comments Off | ]
‘America Writes Home’

“America Writes Home” is a website with a wonderful collection of some existing pre-1920s letters, giving a flavor of that time before iPhones and email.

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[18 Jan 2011 | One Comment | ]
Selling The Book

My favorite is the part about the writer who put up a slideshow on his Facebook page. It showed famous people reading his novel.