Archive for April 16th, 2008

Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? Or Do They Go Anywhere at All?

April 16, 2008
By AlisonSteinWellner

I’ve been pulling together my travel writing workshop, and happened to be preparing my materials on ethics, when a lovely little travel writing ethics scandal conveniently popped up in the news. You’ve probably already heard about the fracas surrounding the new tell-all travel writing book, Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? A Swashbuckling Tale...
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Rotten reviewers (and the rotten authors who review them)

April 16, 2008
By Diana Burrell

Thanks to a post in today’s GalleyGat, I spent the last hour reading the details of an angry romance author’s vendetta against the writer of a (gasp!) 3-star amazon.com review. I read the review — since taken down by amazon.com presumably at the angry author’s request — and it’s fairly pleasant, nothing that would...
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Posted in Book authoring, Observations, Personal yammerings, Writers | 1 Comment »