Those other pages in a book – the ones that authors don’t write – what do the mean? And what information can you gain from them? Today… we present for your enlightenment… the Colophon!
In today’s Write Report, Donna reveals that Harlan Ellison has turned down a lifetime achievement award… because he didn’t want to pay for his travelling and hotel expenses… nor did he want to restrict his acceptance speech to three minutes. Allegedly. And another writing legend, Derek Walcott, withdraws his name from consideration for another top accolade after a smear campaign against him is launched. What on earth is going on in the rarefied… and apparently rather bitchy… world of haute literature?
In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she finds a site that offers advice on onomatopoeia – how to write the sound of things. Peter goes for the gutter.
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