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 of High …

Apr 16, 2008 Classes, Editors, Magazines, Observations, Personal yammerings, Public relations, Writing

Tweet 1 Comment

Rotten reviewers (and the rotten authors who review them)

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 get …

Apr 16, 2008 Book authoring, Observations, Personal yammerings, Writers