From the hush-hush world of the publishing insider… with the scandals and scuttlebutt – the rumours and rumbles – the leaks and lowdowns… it’s time fror your Monday-morning dose of The Debriefer’s insight, analysis and …
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Sarkozy, Je T’aime!
The year’s penultimate WRITE REPORT with Donna Ballman is here… with news of the outcome of the “Twilight” plagiarism lawsuit (the judge had some tough words)… Amazon has been accused of underpaying its workers… and …
Read more »The Contextual Wrap
With panellists from Norway, England, Florida and India, tonight’s show is the most geographically-diverse we’ve ever had – and as we approach our one hundredth episode, we can modestly congratulate ourselves on being the world’s …
Read more »Technology Giveth And Taketh Away
A federal judge has taken the rare step of ordering an author to remove from his website thousands of documents that were allegedly stolen from the Council on American-Islamic Relations – what implications does this …
Read more »The Wrong Palin
Chris Christie, the new Republican Governor Elect of New Jersey, has been called out as a copyright thief – by Monty Python. Scholastic tells an author to rewrite books to exclude a gay couple if …
Read more »The Land of Lost Kindles
It’s a busy Write Report today with Donna – What happens to your library if your Kindle is lost? (The answer is that thieves apparently get to keep it!)… A Portuguese judge bans a new …
Read more »Googazon
It’s another inimitable blend of the profound and the profoundly peculiar this evening: only on Litopia After Dark can we move transcendentally from the works of John Berger to the World Gravy-Wrestling Championships without missing …
Read more »Fighting Dirty
A blogger who described a model as a “skank”, an “old hag” and a “psychotic lying whore” plans to sue Google for $18 million after they were forced to reveal her identity following a court …
Read more »Kill That Adverb! Love That Trope!
It’s not surprising that writers often argue about words, but the sheer animosity that adverbs can sometimes provoke would shock even the most hardened WWF fan. Tonight on LITOPIA AFTER DARK we’re looking at adverbs …
Read more »“I Will Hate You Till The Day I Die”
It’s a bitchfest royale in this week’s news, as two mediocre authors let rip at their critics – Britain’s Alain de Botton (“a writer so grand nowadays that his entire works are written in the …
Read more »Here Is The News, Again
There’s a strong digital theme in this week’s news. In the future, Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader will display more book formats beyond its own and we should expect to see Kindle books on a lot …
Read more »Storytime: The First Twin 2
If you like listening to short stories, you’re in for a treat every day this week. The recent “Flash Fiction” contest in Litopia Writers’ Colony has produced a cornucopia of entries. Asked to write no …
Read more »Salinger Doesn’t Screw Around
It’s Friday – so it’s the first new-style edition of THE WRITE REPORT with our own Donna Ballman. J.D. Salinger is suing to stop publication of an unauthorized sequel to “The Catcher in the Rye”. …
Read more »Are You A Fair Reader?
Apart from being the author of ninety (count ‘em!) books for children and young adults – her latest book, Deathwatch, is just about to be published – Nicola Morgan is also the Chair of the …
Read more »The Seafaring Petomane Meets Mrs. Slocombe’s Pussy
There’s more than a whiff of revolution in the air tonight, and it’s not all coming from our special guest, Alan Gibbons, prolific children’s author and instigator of Britain’s national campaign to stop library closures.
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