— Bookarazzi

Bookarazzi is a new website and blog devoted to the work and interests of a group of published authors.

Bookarazzi is the public face of BloggersWithBookDeals, a group of published writers / artists who spend half our lives on the internet.

There are almost 50 of us, and our books range from surreal comedy to commercial women’s fiction to graphic novels and disgusting recipes.

This is where we come to pool our collective abilities and provide stuff for you to read and use. Whether you’re a budding writer, a bored net surfer or are just feeling nosy, there should be something for you.

Oh, and we might plug our books occasionally too.

But you can go visit the site and make up your own mind about the contents.

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— Presque vu XVIII

Buzz, Balls & Hype has an essay from the literary agent, Simon Lipskar, which attempts to bring some reasoning back into the equation which asserts that an author is responsible for the performance of his book:
. . . we’ve reached a stage of sound and fury in which a whole lot of effort [...]

— On the way to Hay

Tomorrow we leave for Hay on Wye at the request of artsWOM and sponsored by SkyARTS. The object is to blog about the festival, or aspects of it that we get to see.
Very few expectations, apart from the fact that Bill Clinton called it ‘the Woodstock of the mind’. Does that mean we should expect [...]

— Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

A taster:
If he had to date it, Richard pinpoints this Thursday as the day his marriage was finally over. Even though he and Mary Jo went through the form of apologizing, even though they had more than a few drinks and smoked a joint and had dislocated, impersonal sex, nothing got fixed. Mary Jo left [...]

— The Novel and the Internet and an Old Trout

Penelope Farmer, a novelist of some repute, found there was still a demand for her work - via her blog.
The book I’d been writing, like its predecessor, was turned down - that this happens frequently these days to writers of my generation was no comfort at all. I felt too discouraged to start another. But [...]

— Dreaming for Writers

In a post on Spend Me To School, there is a list of people who have solved problems by dreaming.
Mary Shelly, apparently, dreamed up Frankenstein:
“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think… I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I [...]

— Most Borrowed Authors

The most borrowed authors of Adult Fiction, from British Libraries July 2005 - June 2006
01 James Patterson
02 Josephine Cox
03 Danielle Steel
04 Ian Rankin
05 John Grisham
06 Nora Roberts
07 Agatha Christie
08 Bernard Cornwell
09 [...]

— Frieda Hughes Interview

My mother, head in oven, died
And me, already dead inside
I was an empty tin
Where nothing rattled in.
Time magazine has an interview with Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, on the occasion of the publication of 45, a new collection of poems. The title refers to Frieda Hughes’ age and the volume [...]

— Around the world in 100 books

Here’s my plan (because it’s good to have a plan) : I am aiming to read 100 books from 100 different countries in one year.
The plan belongs to the blogger behind the website and the year in question is already more than halfway through. The books read include novels by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (Spain), [...]

— The responsibility of writers

I’m often asked if there is something I think writers ought to do, and recently in an interview I heard myself say: “Several things. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
Needless to say, no sooner had these perky phrases fallen out of my mouth than I thought of some more recipes [...]