Tag: pop culture

Life Imitates Art

ByRachel August 19, 2009 0 Comments
This is too weird. I just read EON: DRAGONEYE REBORN by Alison Goodman about a girl posing as a boy to win a competition. Then today I stumbled on this Yahoo story. In Goodman's story, Eon and her master believe she can excel in the Dragoneye competition. But it's closed to girls, so they pass her off as a young boy. As they suspected, she wins the competition.  Throughout the book, others...

Writing at home — a "real" job?

ByRachel July 30, 2009 4 Comments
Is writing at home a real job? Maybe for Steven King. But is it a real job for aspiring authors who haven't been published and aren't seeing any money yet? Most authors (including me) think so, but there are always those who disagree, who see it as a lazy excuse to stay home. The great write-at-home debate has finally been settled in the Yahoo universe. This Yahoo news article officially...

Cold-Calling Bookstores

ByRachel July 16, 2009 0 Comments
My stint of highly experimental book promotion tactics continued today as I began the first round of cold-calling bookstores to ask about hot-selling titles in YA fantasy. I called exactly nine stores and got a host of responses from the inventory staff/managers, ranging from a twenty-minute conversation to a curt declaration that "Vampires are big, and that's all I can tell you." Yes, vampires...

Journalism Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances

ByRachel June 27, 2009 4 Comments
By Rachel Heston Davis with contributions by Michael Shane West Journalism (16th century-2009) was found dead today on the Internet, sparking a wave of controversy over possible causes. Its lifeless body was discovered in a pool of its own wildly speculative articles, most of them from the Internet, and rushed to the presses where it was unable to be revived. Concerns about Journalism’s failing...