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as of Sep 5, 2008.
David Isaak's blog about his debut novel SHOCK AND AWE--plus thoughts on writing, reading, publishing, joining the Macmillan New Writing family, and whatever else comes to mind
ABOUT ME (isn't everything?)
My Debut Novel
The Paperback Is Out...
as of Sep 5, 2008.
It's on the Kindle, Too...
Hey, Buy the Book, OK?
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- My So-Called Policy on Reviews
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- Why read books on writing anyway?
- Pat Walsh: 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never be Published and 14 Reasons Why it Just Might
- Atlanta Nights: A Writer's Anti-Textbook
- Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reivews and Rejections
- Favorite Novels About Writers
- Zelazny, Diction, and Style
- John Gardner: Art of Fiction and On Becoming a Novelist
- Lawrence Block: Telling Lies for Fun and Profit and Spider, Spin Me a Web
- Stephen Koch: The Moderrn Library Writer's Workshop
- Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Vols 1-8
- Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
- Francine Prose: Reading Like A Writer
- Ben Yagoda: The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing
- Mittelmark & Newman: How NOT to Write a Novel
- David Armstrong: How NOT to Write a Novel: Confessions of a Midlist Author
- Blake Snyder: Save the Cat!
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- Hello from Rancho Mirage
- Pacing, Tempo, and the Dangers of Critique Groups
- I Won and I Lost
- How NOT to Write a Novel--the other one I promised
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2 comments:
yes, this is simply brilliant. He's hit the nail on the head. great performance too!
I love the bit where he says = 'you know, what's funny about the Oprah question...#
Yes, wonderfully dry. I also love, "Well, I have my blog...yeah, the Blogger blog...yes, the free one..."
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