Category Archives: Writer’s Salon

2012 Reading Trends

January 4, 2012 – 4:58 pm

Happy 2012 readers!  Even tho’ I can’t predict what new titles will become this year’s hot reads, I did run across a few note worthy trends that book insiders are betting on and buzzing about. Contemporary dilemma-type titles, sequels of classic tales, YA/adult crossover titles and short story collections are just a few of the fiction trends [...]

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Kirkland Hosts Northwest BookFest 2011

September 17, 2011 – 10:58 am

Save the date! Northwest BookFest 2011 is only a few weeks away…and for the first time ever, the Eastside will host.   This year’s theme (giving us hope there will be many more years to come) is It’s Raining Books!  By the looks of the program schedule there is lots to choose from.  Readers can [...]

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Great Books Week Challenge

October 5, 2009 – 5:13 pm

The National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE) is celebrating Great Books Week by hosting a Blog Tour.  If you would like to join in and share your love of great books, simply blog about the topic of the day and leave a comment with a link to your post on the NAIWE Newswire [...]

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Your Odds Of Becoming Another Dan Brown

September 15, 2009 – 6:54 pm

Whatever your feelings are towards Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (out today), consider this.  It’s not easy making it to the top of the publishing heap these days.  The statistics are stacked against you according to Daniel Menaker, fiction editor of The New Yorker and former Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House.  In an essay he [...]

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Worst Writing Contest

July 1, 2009 – 1:04 pm

I cracked up when I read this winning entry from Eric Rice of Sun Prairie, Wis. for worst  opening sentence to a novel in the detective category of  The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, affectionately known as “It was a dark and stormy night” contest. “She walked into my office on legs as long as one of [...]

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