How can anyone not feel so happy, so empowered, and incredibly smug about this? Thanks to Kristin Nelson for pointing this out in her blog yesterday:
The Philippines 2009 Book Blockade
…Earlier this month (Shelf Awareness, May 4, 2009), Hemley had written about “The Great Book Blockade of 2009,” in which customs officials in the Philippines [...]
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Power of Book Lovers
Posted in Book Business & News, Responses to Other Blogs, tagged 2009, blockade, books, empower, news, philippines on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mistakes We Writers Make: a Blog Response (Take 2)
Posted in About Writing, Responses to Other Blogs, tagged background information, backstory, beginning writer, blog response, explanation, integrate, kristin nelson, lajos egri, literary agent, mistake, telling on July 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Agent Nelson strikes again! In her latest blog entry, she speaks about the “opening-chapter-back-story-info-dump” writer mistake. We all know what that is; the name says it all. It’s the writer’s notes and details that a writer thinks his readers need to know in the beginning (or middle or end or a large piece of in-between) [...]
Mistakes We Writers Make: a Blog Response
Posted in About Writing, Responses to Other Blogs, tagged About Writing, beginning writer, blog response, dialogue, don't tell, ineffective, kristin nelson, literary agent, mistake, show on July 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I love reading Kristin Nelson’s blog. Because she’s a literary agent, she is able to provide insight into the publishing business and point out writer’s mistakes she reads or witnesses—all very useful for us aspiring to be published. This week, she has been writing about mistakes beginning writers, and even seasoned writers, make at times.
“The [...]


