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Beware the Witch-Hunting Impulse

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From points one through three—never write or pay for reviews of your own work—I was in complete agreement. From points four through six—don’t ask friends or fans to review your work—I was thinking, “wow, that’s pretty strict.” Get back to working on your books, not judging your peers.”.

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Beware the Witch-Hunting Impulse

B2B Memes

From points one through three—never write or pay for reviews of your own work—I was in complete agreement. From points four through six—don’t ask friends or fans to review your work—I was thinking, “wow, that’s pretty strict.” Get back to working on your books, not judging your peers.”.

Ethics 100
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3 Traits of Editorial Success

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MUD day 7: Editors should be pleased by Malcolm Gladwell’s review in the latest New Yorker of Walter Isaccson’s Steve Jobs biography. ” As I thought about the characteristics of Jobs’s genius after reading Gladwell’s review, I realized that in fact some of them are shared by successful editors.

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Innocent and Malignant Typos and the Case of Filloux v. Jarvis

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To this day, I’m still suffering post-typographic stress from the discovery 27 years ago that in my first published book review, for the Nashville Tennessean , I asserted that the novel’s protagonist died from an overdose of “heroine.&#. Much of the pain of that error came from the fact that it was permanent.

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Three Common Failures in Online News: Are You At Fault?

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But in the 1,000 articles I reviewed, 65% of them showed no evidence of enterprise. But in many stories I’ve reviewed, the authors show a fondness for verbose and wandering sentences. That is, I found no indication in the article that an actual telephone or e-mail exchange occurred between editor and source. Longwinded sentences.

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A Leap-Day Special

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You can already buy the discounted e-book on Smashwords ; but Amazon requires a review of all changes, so it may not take effect for the Kindle version until leap day proper. I don’t anticipate another discount for some time. Managing one-day sales, it appears, can be a bit tricky. Likewise, the price might not return to the regular $2.99

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Defeating the Blank Page: S. J. Perelman on the Chandler Method

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In a late-1950s Paris Review interview, he was asked what he did to overcome the blank page and start writing an essay. MUD day 12: On a day when I have little time and less inspiration, I will let the sadly neglected S. Perelman ride to my rescue.

Paper 100