Archive for March 5th, 2008

Fictional Nonfiction

March 5, 2008
By Diana Burrell

On a writer’s board I belong to, journalists are buzzing about the latest scandal to hit the memoir-writing industry, the story of Margaret Seltzer a/k/a Margaret B. Jones, who wrote a book about her foster childhood in south central LA running drugs for a gang. Minor little detail: Margaret was raised by her biological...
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Good Hump Day Advice

March 5, 2008
By Diana Burrell

Novelist and magazine writer Allison Winn-Scotch posted some terrific advice today at Ask Allison for newbie freelancers. And may I say, it’s great advice for those of us who’ve been around the block and back again. I laughed when I read, “I honestly couldn’t give two figs if a pitch or an article gets...
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