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Who's in February 09's magazines due out 8th January?
Re the star letter in WN, the writer (Anne Wilks) says that on holiday she read books from the hotel library and found one in particular difficult to finish. She says that "after the slog of finishing the novel I still don't know what it was about".
She says that WM and WN tell would-be writers "to show not tell, not to overuse adverbs, not to mislead our readers, etc, and yet this book does all those things and more."
I wonder which author she is referring to. The only clue is that it's someone who has "a long list of published novels to her credit". If she mentioned the name in her original letter, WN presumably thought it wiser not to include it.
Thanks. I've just noticed that the title of one of my books gets a mention on page 6 of Writing Magazine in the 'A word here and there' article: Slubberdegullion.
I've been complaining about their standards of editing for some time, it gets me nowhere. It's one reason I skim read and then pass the magazines on. No indepth reading there worth doing.
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She says that WM and WN tell would-be writers "to show not tell, not to overuse adverbs, not to mislead our readers, etc, and yet this book does all those things and more."
I wonder which author she is referring to. The only clue is that it's someone who has "a long list of published novels to her credit". If she mentioned the name in her original letter, WN presumably thought it wiser not to include it.
"Contemporary storylines are very much of today," and "These are current problems in today's world."
And what's wrong with doe eyes?
Bit obvious those two- do you think they ran out of new things to say...?
"Best car colour for a car?"
And, in yet another article, on page 32, we have:
"... trilogy comprised of the novels ..."