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”. …
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Salinger Doesn’t Screw Around
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 …
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.
While …
Climax & Aftermath
Undercover agent Jay Dobyns (left) with his trauma surgeon Richard Carmona, later the 17th United States Surgeon General
Operation Black Biscuit reaches its climax – undercover agent Jay Dobyns achieves his aim of being the first …
Death in the Desert
Faked murder scene, Arizona desert
Two murders – one faked (see photo) in order to give undercover agent Jay Dobyns credibility with the Hells Angels – and another, all too real. Jay’s gripping story has just …
At Home With The Hells Angels
Undercover agent Jay Dobyns
They’re part of American mythology: OMGs (outlaw motorcycle gangs) are uniquely American in origin, and indeed the country’s only indigenous organized crime movement. Today, in the company of former undercover agent Jay …
Going Undercover
Undercover agent Jay Dobyns
Less than a week into his new job with the ATF, Jay Dobyns is critically injured – shot in a botched hostage operation. Yet far from discouraged, Jay elects to go undercover …
“No Angel” by Jay Dobyns
Former ATF agent Jay Dobyns, author of the NYT bestseller "No Angel"
“I’m going to die here, in the dirt and the dust and the grime… and I haven’t even been on the job for a …
The Gorilla That is Amazon Becomes A Publisher
Continuing our insider’s guide to “those other” pages in a book – the ones that authors don’t write – what can your learn (professionally) from the table of contents and the acknowledgements? A heck of …
The Prefrontal Gym
“Every story is a new Heaven” says Brian Eno of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman – our guest this morning. The connection between good science and good writing is closer than …
Sum by David Eagleman
“This gorgeously produced, wee sliver of a book packs an enormous punch” says one reviewer on Amazon, and they’re not wrong (Philip Pullman is a big fan, too). Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by …
Why Don’t They Just Burn The Books?
Peter’s looking ahead to the next couple of weeks on LITOPIA DAILY – there are some wonderful treats in store for you – and then, he tries to deliver the news, too…
In today’s Write Report, …
Publishers – Get Your House In Order
It's a cougar-packed show tonight, folks!
Without an equitable distribution of income between authors and publishers, the much-vaunted digital future of publishing will be delayed: perhaps even mortally derailed. That’s one of the many important points …
Yes, We’ve Reached Two Centuries!
Hurray – it’s the 200th episode of LITOPIA DAILY today! Keeping you informed, intrigued and hopefully entertained too – our mission is to bring you all the latest ideas, all the most interesting people, and …
Giving Up The Day Job
Jane Davis, author of Half-Truths and White Lies
We continue our discussion with Jane Davis whose new book Half-truths and White Lies has won the Daily Mail’s First Novel Award. How do you leave your “proper” …
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