Dana King's Blog – October 2008 Archive (2)

Don't Quote Me on This

(Cross posted on One Bite at a Time.)

As Lionel Shriver notes in the Wall Street Journal, "Literature is not very popular these days. Anyone who writes literary fiction is happy to tell you it's a bitch to get literary fiction published. The reason it's a bitch is because much of it doesn't sell, and, in fairness to publishers, there's only so altruistic even the… Continue

Added by Dana King on October 29, 2008 at 12:08pm — 5 Comments

Bouchercon 2008

(Cross posted at One Bite at a Time)

I'm back from Bouchercon and finally getting caught up on the rest of my life. I got some books to review, two interviews set up with authors, and a TBR pile exponentially larger than before the conference. A rousing success for someone who doesn't meet people easily and had only spoken to one person there before last week.

Much of the credit for that has to go to the crime fiction writing and… Continue

Added by Dana King on October 17, 2008 at 10:41am — No Comments