No matter how many Christmas parties you may go to over the festive season, one thing is certain – you’ll never encounter anything quite as spectacular as Litopia After Dark’s annual bash. Featuring Donna Ballman, …
Posts Tagged ‘Ballman’
All The King’s Men
Here’s a quick quiz for you – who said this? “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” If you guessed Humpty Dumpty, give …
18 Holes
The highly popular “Dr. Sue” (Dr. Susan O’Doherty, the writer’s therapist) is our special guest for the year’s penultimate LITOPIA AFTER DARK – next week’s show is our Xmas Party, so expect lots of fun, …
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 …
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 …
The 36-Hour Day
You’ll have to forgive Peter his little gaffes tonight: last night was the evening of the Golden Twits Awards in which Litopia triumphed… he’s been up a long time! Fortunately, tonight’s redoubtable and stout-hearted panel …
The Naked Name of Love
Jesuit-shaman sex on the eastern steppes of Mongolia. It may sound like an aberration from The Commissioning Meeting (see below) but no, it’s a real book, and a promising candidate for this year’s Bad Sex …
The Velvet Rope
Valerie Plame Wilson – a former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide has lost an appeal to declassify parts of her memoir. The only winner …
The Audacity of Narcissism
To promote her new book – for which she’s been reportedly paid anything up to $11m – the former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has taken to Twittering. But not in the way that lesser mortals …
The Joy Of Rejection
Imagine this. You have a letter of acceptance in your hand, and one of rejection… which one are you going to brood over? If you’re like most writers, you’ll take the rejection to heart, while …
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 …
Love Me Like A Reptile
“When love is not madness, it is not love” wrote the C17th Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca – although he might easily been referring to tonight’s Litopia After Dark, in which we learn …
Pigs Might Fly
You would be excused for being heartily sick and tired of hearing about the Google Book Settlement, but… pay attention for another few minutes this morning, if you don’t mind – this is important, and …
Dead Authors Society
Things have come to a pretty pass when publishers prefer to issue the minor works of dead authors rather the current work of living writers. But that’s what’s happening in today’s muddled publishing scene: the …
Winnie The Pee
Life get’s stranger, doesn’t it? And it seems that few areas are more bizarre than the publishing world. In this week’s WRITE REPORT with Donna Ballman. The FTC plans to require online book reviewers (bloggers… …
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