Category: Publishing
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On Missing Girls & Why I Can’t Listen to Eric Clapton
The Back to the Future soundtrack is the sound of happiness. If you don’t love “The Power of Love” than you are an inhuman monster and we have nothing to talk about. But on a weirder, darker note, I can’t listen to Eric Clapton’s “Heaven is One Step Away,” on the A-side. It’s a halfway decent…
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On Triathlons and The Myth of ‘Wasted Words’
One of the coolest parts about my job as a reporter is that for all the meetings I attend and hard news I write, I also get to do a whole host of feature stories, which means I get to meet a lot of interesting people. And last week, once again, I got to dip into…
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Galley Copies
My galley copies of The Big Rewind arrived yesterday and…wow. They’re incredible. To actually hold my own book in my hands, to see my name on a cover is such a thrill that I lack the words to describe it. For the whole night I kept picking it up and turning it over in my hands, thinking this…
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The Big Rewind….Cover Reveal!
Here it is, the cover for my debut novel, The Big Rewind! I am beyond thrilled about this. I had gone back and forth about it, choosing colors and such, with Chelsey (my editor) & Jim (my agent), who are the two most awesome people in the publishing world, but until now, the cover was…
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Farewell, PANK
PANK announced today that they would be closing down at the end of this year. This is a drag on multiple levels. One, they always had the best buttons at AWP and two, because being published by PANK is an awesome experience for any writer. I would know — they picked up my story “Hotel…
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BOOK GIVEAWAY UPDATE
I’m packing up writing craft books to ship out Monday, but I still have a few left to give away. If you’d like one, just find me on Twitter (@libbycudmore) or leave a note in the comments section. US only, please. Cory Doctorow, Content The College Handbook of Creative Writing, Third Edition (my favorite) Writers Digest “HowDunIt”…
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BOOK GIVEAWAY
In the continuing purge of stuff from my father-in-law’s basement, I came across a box of writing craft books from when I was first starting out. I love craft books even though I rarely use them anymore; their pages stuffed with knowledge and promise and possibilities. But just because I’m not using them doesn’t mean…
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Idiot Box: ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Michael Westen’
What We Talk About When We Talk About Michael Westen You are only a handful of dress shirts, but you are a different man each time you wear them. Walk, accent, tie or no tie. It’s only when you’re stripped bare that I recognize you at all. These days, you’re naked less and less often…
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Make the Time
My biggest pet peeve is when writers tell me, “I don’t have time to write.” It’s a lament I hear all the time, oh, how do you find the time? I wish I had some free time to write, I just really want to write a book but I’m so busy. . . and then, inevitably, the…
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Guest Post: Jason Bates of Punks Write Poems
(Today’s post comes from Jason Bates, author of The Littlest Spoon, which I loved. Jay and i have known each other for years, and he’s my absolute favorite poet. He was awesome enough to do my Sunday work for me, and I hope you’ll all run out and buy The Littlest Spoon) I’ve noticed that oftentimes Libby…
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