Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers

From the Inkygirl archives:
With the holiday season coming up, I figured it was about time for a list of suggestions for those of you who need gift ideas for your writer friends, or in case your family and friends need ideas on what to get for you…with time to mail order (hence the timing of [...]

The Huffington Post has an interesting article called When Doris Lessing Became Jane Somers and Tricked the Publishing World (And Possibly Herself In the Process).
To demonstrate the struggles that unknown writers face in the brand-name obsessed publishing, apparently Ms. Lessing submitted two books under a pseudonym. Jonathan Cape, her longtime publisher in the U.K., turned [...]

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Home shopping channel QVC is aiming to rebrand the letter Q. QVC’s chief marketing officer made the following quote in The New York Times:
“We’d really like to own the 17th letter of the alphabet.”
Hm….
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I’ve always loved this song, but didn’t realize there was a video until I saw it in Booklust:

Not the greatest quality video, but the song is fun. Micro-trivia: one of my uncle’s nieces is married to Mike Ford, one of the band members.
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Looks like the Oxford dictionary is adding 2700 new words. New words include “chill pill,” “argh” and “problemo.”
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