I make things up and write them down. I hope one day someone will read them and believe me, and then print out a copy for someone else to read. Until then, would you believe me if I told you
If your limit for the Picasso was $106,499,999.99, cry not.
Kristin Nelson over at Pub Rants posted a reminder that Brenda Novak’s 6th Annual Online Auction for Diabetes Research is on.
There are plenty of offerings for writers. What I find most interesting are the opportunities to have your work critiqued by an agent. Note that a critique does not guarantee representation or sale.
I just have one word: mulligan.
‘One Book, One Twitter’ launches worldwide book club with Neil Gaiman:
American Gods chosen as the launch book for plan to get ‘a zillion people all reading and talking about a single book’
“The aim with One Book, One Twitter is – like the one city, one book programme which inspired it – to get a zillion people all reading and talking about a single book. It is not, for instance, an attempt to gather a more selective crew of book lovers to read a series of books and meet at established times to discuss,” explained Howe at Wired.com.
Get your read on. Visit 1b1t.
Mark Twain’s unpublished manuscript, “A Family Sketch” will be auctioned off in June. The story was a tribute to his daughter who passed away at the age of 24 from spinal meningitis.
The 64-page, handwritten document is among a trove of 200 personal letters, manuscripts and photographs of Mark Twain — the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens — going on sale June 17 at Sotheby’s New York.
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Must put this on the calendar for next year.
Continues:
Gordon Parks: 100 Years
International Center of Photography (ICP)
1133 Avenue of the Americas, NYC @ 43rd St.
To commemorate...
A depressed copywriter
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Château Lafite Rothschild
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