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Here’s my selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing from the last week:

 
Here’s my selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing from the last week:

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In the pre-Internet days (and yes, there used to be such a thing, although I'm kind of vague about when that was), I used to believe it was possible I might be the only April Henry in the world.

Ha! There are several dozen of us. A few I have even corresponded with.

Last night I ran across this:

"April Henry received her BA in German and Sociology from Indiana University Bloomington in 1999. During the academic year 2002-2003 she participated in the UNC-CH/Baden-Wuettemberg TA exchange program at the University of Mannheim."

[Ok, that's a little odd. I studided German and was also on exchange in Baden-Wuettemberg, but quite a bit earlier.]

"In 2004 she completed her MA thesis titled: “The lament as a Path to Female Subjectivity” for which she received the Ria Stambaugh award.... Her conference papers include: “The Lament as a Path to Partial Subjectivity in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec” and “ The Threat of a Lamenting Female Subject in das Nibelungenlied“."

[Can you imagine getting that in-depth into any subject? At this point, we have obviously diverged.]

"Her research interests include feminist theory, gender, melancholy, film, and medieval literature."

[I love that her research interests include "melancholy." I wonder if I can take it up as a hobby.]

 Today I'm over at the YA Contemps blog, talking about April Henry's latest release, GIRL, STOLEN, for our Spotlight Wednesday feature. It's a great, compulsive read, so definitely check it out (but not unless you've got a chunk of time to devote, because it's hard to put down)!

I'm also very excited to be spreading the word about October's featured author over at readergirlz, Laini Taylor. If you haven't yet read LIPS TOUCH, now's the time - preferably before Laini's upcoming Twitter chat on 10/20! 



So there's my blog post, utterly honest in its title representation - two awesome authors who are not me. Get reading! 

Editor & Publisher reports that the Associated Press is dropping its book review package. That's bad news for authors. Even a small AP review would get picked up by dozens of newspapers that don't have their own book reviewers on staff.

When E&P asked AP about the decision, Linda M. Wagner, the wire service's director of media relations and public affairs, said in a statement today: "AP is revamping its Lifestyles coverage to focus more resources on topics like food and parenting, and as a result we are discontinuing the book-review package that had moved through that department."

She added that AP "remains as committed as ever" to covering books -- via reviews, features about authors, etc. -- through its Arts and Entertainment Department. "In addition, there is a full-time reporter on AP's national staff, Hillel Italie, whose beat is publishing and book. [And] we've written a healthy number of spot-news stories related to books, including the announcements of the final Harry Potter installment and the next book pick by both Oprah Winfrey and Starbucks, the National Book Critics Circle finalists, the Newbery-Caldecott prize winners, an obituary of author Tillie Olsen, and a piece about George McGovern's plans to write a biography of Abraham Lincoln."

Oh, right, those are great examples of books that otherwise wouldn't get any coverage. I mean, thank God, they covered Harry Potter!





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