Idiosyncratic

As I compose this post, both the Literary Saloon and Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind have already commented on this article, but while in both cases their comments are completely well-taken, I don't think they go nearly far enough in capturing the sheer idiocy of judging the quality of a given book -- at least when it comes to fiction -- on a "synopsis."

Principles of Literary Criticism

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind has a plum of a blog entry from last week.

Wag the Blog #6: That's Worse than a Tramp Stamp

Well, after reading an article about it over at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, I want it even more.

Wag the Blog #1: What Does a Seal's Heart Taste Like?

Idiosyncratic-to-Dodd questions about integrity were jeopardizing what will be a safe seat in the hands of Attorney General Blumenthal or any of the CT House Democrats.

Matthew Yglesias » Two Retirements

At Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, Sarah Weinman writes about the "media blitz" leading up to Innocent, Scott Turow's sequel to Presumed Innocent.

Beyond the Underground:

Sarah Weinman of Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind made a distinction between two “waves” of bloggers who write about books:

Book bloggers — the old and new “waves” and what you need to know about both « The Book Publicity Blog

Several months ago, Sarah Weinman of Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind broke down the imprints at all the major publishing houses: Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, The Penguin Groupand Random House.

2009 July 14 « The Book Publicity Blog

Sarah Weinman (herself Canadian), of course, is queen of the crime-fiction blogs in the USA, and does a fantastic job at rounding up, reviewing and bringing constant news of international, as well asindigenous, crime fiction at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.

April 2009

Sarah Weinman at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind blog discusses a piece at the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review on the pros and cons of self-publishing.

PETRONA

Hard to go wrong, maybe, with the topic (crime fiction) and the subject (the genre's best-known blogger, at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, as well as a coauthor of publishing news and gossip blog GalleyCat).

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