It Takes a Certain Type to be a Writer: Facts from the World of Writing and Publishing

Sprednja platnica
Conari Press, 1. avg. 2003 - 193 strani
Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo are the Queen and King of trivia, relied upon by game shows including Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and game manufacturers. Millions of people read their daily newspaper column and together they've written twenty books. The sixth book in the Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining (TRUE) Trivia Series puts a magnifying lens on the wacky world of writers. It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer will tell you everything you could possibly want, or were afraid, to know about writers, publishing, and the writing life. Bite-sized facts are organized into chapters including "Everyone's a Critic", "Stranger than Fiction", "From Bad to Verse," "Kiddie Lit", "A Word's Worth," and many more. You'll learn things like: where Proust wrote (in bed with gloves on); what Voltaire drank (70 cups of coffee a day); and how James Cain prepared himself for yet another publisher's rejection. (The title The Postman Always Rings Twice had nothing to do with the plot of the best-selling novel. It was a private joke of author James Cain. His postman would ring his doorbell twice whenever the many-times-rejected manuscript came back from a publisher.)
 

Izbrane strani

Vsebina

Dont Quit Your Day Job
1
If at First Dont Succeed
18
Whats in a Name?
24
The Ties That Bind and Sometimes Gag
37
Tips Tricks of the Trade
49
Everyones a Critic
55
Stranger Than Fiction
72
Quoth the Writer
79
Kiddie Lit
105
thirteen
114
Saint Sinners Quirks Outrages
120
Easy Reading Is Damned Hard Writing
132
A Words Worth
148
Random Facts from the Bibliophiles
158
the End
178
Selected References
191

From Bad to Verse
89
By the Numbers
94
Youre My Inspiration
101
Acknowledgements
Avtorske pravice

Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse

Pogosti izrazi in povedi

O avtorju (2003)

Erin Barrett, author of a kids trivia book, has written for "Icon" and the "San Jose Mercury News", among others, and has contributed to several anthologies including the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series. She lives in Alameda, California. Jack has designed numerous electronic and online games, as well as the first Ask Jeeves Book "Just Curious, Jeeves". He lives in Alameda, California.

Bibliografski podatki