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  Writer Inc. - New writing starting up in Newton

  Hi, I'm also interested in joining a Waban-based writing group. I have a novel ms. sitting on agents' desks and working on a second. Publishing "Parenting Traps" columns in Boston Globe Magazine. Can contact me outside the Ark at jack.cheng@gmail.com

  Hope this can work out!   -Jack

  Posted 16 Mar 10

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  What are you reading?

  You people must be kidding me! Melville, O'Connor, Updike, and JOYCE?!

  I just started reading Burt Ward's tell-all of his sexcapades as Robin on the set of the 1960s Batman show, My Life in Tights. Also read La Perdita, a not so great, but beautifully drawn graphic novel by Jessica Abel, Babylon's Ark about saving the Baghdad Zoo, and Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. For intellectualism, I read Tom Stoppard's Rock and Roll, but only because my wife made me.

  Posted 18 Aug 08

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  Book blurbing

  I think I had a titling problem. So I'm reposting my comment and question with a new topic heading:

   

  Just read this article by Rebecca Johnson on getting published authors to blurb her book: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/04/blurbs/index.html

  Anyone have any experience with this? Seems like the Muse and Grub St are good places for networking, but I can't imagine being so forward with strangers.

  And does anyone care about the blurbs? Anyone ever buy a book based on a good blurb by a favorite author?

  Posted 18 Aug 08

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  Meeting established writers

  Just read this article by Rebecca Johnson on getting published authors to blurb her book: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/04/blurbs/index.html

  Anyone have any experience with this? Seems like the Muse and Grub St are good places for networking, but I can't imagine being so forward with strangers.

  And does anyone care about the blurbs? Anyone ever buy a book based on a good blurb by a favorite author?

  Posted 04 Aug 08