Author name: Booksquare

We are forever in search of creative ways to force ourself to meet deadlines. For the record, setting “pretend” deadlines allows us to have “pretend” last-minute crises that cause us to miss our deadline, leading to “pretend” hand-wringing over the whole disaster. Then we pretend to move on, but really, all that faking it wears a girl down. Greg Sandow has decided to try another way of meeting his deadlines: writing his book online. He’ll post a new chapter every two weeks, people will offer helpful comments (woeful is the author who has the whole world as a critique partner!)

Go up to a writer and ask this question: do you hear voices in your head? If the answer is a cheerful “yes”, most people back away slowly. No need to find out what the voices are saying. Other writers, of course, will move closer, eager to compare experiences. It is always strange to learn that other people don’t hear a constant stream of discussion, by characters, throughout the day. Then there are those who hear voices, develop other personalities, and then let those alternate personalities write a book. Man, the writer says, that’s how it should be. Definite way

We have yet to note a scenario where an publisher fails to over-anticipate demand for books. Scholastic, apparently, got a little giddy after the first day of sales for the latest Harry Potter title and went and started the printing presses. Now they have approximately 2.5 million more copies of the book than they need. Stacks of unsold copies are collecting dust in bookstores and warehouses across the US, and Scholastic – the world’s largest distributor of children’s books, and best known in the UK for Clifford the Big Red Dog – is bracing itself for an avalanche of returned

It is a fact that most of our history, as noted in textbooks, is men’s history. We know about the wars, the politics, the conquering of nations — we do not know so much about how people, regular people, survived. That, after all, is the story of women, and our history books cannot be bothered with such mundane information. It was only sometime in the late 18th century that women worked around the problem that men decided what merited recording for posterity: women wrote novels. We often talk about the subversive nature of women’s fiction, and Rebecca Traister of Salon

We can’t recall: is Halloween the one with the practical jokes? And if so, what makes a joke practical? While we puzzle over this problem, the husband thought our readers would jump all over his latest find. Yeah, we know, he doesn’t actually read Booksquare. That’s never stopped him from assuming he knows what happens here. A sample of what he read out loud to us: “Follow These Simple, Step by Step Instructions And You Can Instantly Become A Well Known Author…Without Writing A Word, And You Get To Keep 100% Of the Profits!” Yes, it’s true: you can take