The winner of a popular British TV modeling contest signs up as a plus-size model after getting burned by the fashion industry. She’s 5’11” and weighs “eleven stone,” or 154 pounds. Here’s a picture of one of the other competitors on the show, Marianne Berglund, who had no problems getting a contract. (via By The […]

So here are the supposed top ten food books (from Epi-blog, the Epicurious blog). I’ve read…two. Top 10 Food Books (not Cookbooks) That Every Chef Should Own(in random order) 1) On Food & Cooking — Harold McGee ***Agree. What, a 1000 pages of heavy reading? 2) The Art of Eating — MFK Fisher ***A lovely

Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 Q: Is there are maket for alternative-lifestyle romances? AK: I have one that’s taken over two years. But it’s a good market. It’s got

Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 From here out, it’s mostly audience questions. Q: I’ve edited a lady’s memoirs. It’s a WWII story. I’m not qualified to be an agent.

Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 Q: Some basic questions about contracts. First, do you have verbal or written contracts? What are the basic clauses? What should not be included

Please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 Q: What do you think about the trend for agents to request shorter fiction synopses of one to three pages? AK: I’m still old

I wrote furiously through the whole thing, but please understand that I didn’t catch every word, so this is more the “flavor” of the answers than exact quotes. My comments are in [brackets]. Any errors are mine alone 🙂 A committee came up with the first set of questions. See Part VI and following for

The “Write Brain” session was held at Cottonwood Artists’ School, across from the new America the Beautiful Park. (I’ve heard talk the school was to be closed and razed to build a hotel. But everything was full speed ahead, as far as I could tell.) When I pulled into the parking lot, other cars were

…or two. On Wednesday, I went to a trial (for me) meeting of the Pikes Peak Writers group, “What Literary Agents Want, featuring Literary Agents Sandra Bond and AnitaKushen.” The writer’s group, among other things, holds an annual, 3-day Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Here‘s a link to the 2006 conference to give an idea of

by Jonathan Coulton and Our Friends at WoW. A delightful, somewhat-folksy plea by a zombie to his former co-worker. And here‘s his home site. (via Doyce.)