While diddling away the random hour on Twitter I ran across a link to the Marie Claire blog post Should Fatties Get a Room (Even on TV?) I was amazed to find nearly 4,000 comments weighing in-sorry-on the debate about whether or not overweight people should a) have their own TV show, or b) be allowed out in public where anyone can see them. The post was kind of a silly bit of business, which I’m sure author Maura Kelly thought she was writing a bit of fluff. Think again. The topic of Mike & Molly soon faded as Maura…
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78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published
Pat Walsh is an Editor who takes on the task of schooling the would-be novelist on how to improve their writing by providing them with the reasons they might be better off taking up golf. He also adds 14 Reasons why it might be published. The chapters are small, the writing is clear and concise, the word choice errs on the side of the simple and understandable. It is also pretty damned funny. I’ve been writing this and that for a long time, but I have never been published. I have a couple of manuscripts I have been kicking around,…