Today Peter’s guest is American writer Paul Malmont (left) whose second book JACK LONDON IN PARADISE has just been published. Peter wants to know – how do you choose your subjects?
In today’s Write Report, Donna brings good news: following revelations on last week’s LITOPIA AFTER DARK concerning the US Consumer Products Safety Commission plans to test books before readers are exposed to them – the plans have now been postponed for a year. Phew – breathing space! And Washington University brain researchers probe the way readers (literally) “get inside” a story.
In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she tells us about a website that explains to authors the often-fraught behind-the-scenes acquisition process that publishers go through.
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Links: The Write Report, The Acquisition Process
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