Today’s links of interest:
- Appeal over Shakespeare lessons
Apparently, boring kids to death is an ideal way to turn them off literature for life. - Indian book publishing industry on upswing
India is the hottest thing in publishing since, well, China. - Breast Wishes, Dita
Why do we so want to have our books autographed? - ‘Fat man’ walked into a wall
The story of a guy who walked to lose weight, and the book deal that fell apart after that. - New award for unknown novelists draws critics
So, yeah, it’s basically a writing contest. You pay your fee, you roll the dice, and, as some have noted, you get a chance at representation by an agency that hasn’t been firing up the sales list.