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March 30, 2022

CONVERSATION: More Thoughts on Anachronisms and Inaccuracies

JayneConversationsanachronisms / authenticity / author's notes / believability / book errors / contemperroneous / names / sex / vocabulary27 Comments

Janine: In our last conversation post we discussed anachronisms. Some of the offshoots in our discussion were enjoyable so we hope that you will like them too. Here they are:   Author’s Notes   Jayne: If you don’t realize something is wrong or you couldn’t care less about it, does ... more >

January 22, 2018

Monday News: “bad sex” & romance, Amazon Go, boys’ book club, and Edith Wharton=design guru

JanetPublishing News#metoo / Amazon Go / consent / Edith Wharton / educational achievement / interior design / reading clubs / sex6 Comments

#MeToo Has Forced Me to Admit I’m a Romance Novelist Who’s Having Bad Sex – Thoughtful post from Andie J. Christopher, who confronts the gap between the sex she has in real life and the sex she writes about in Romance fiction. She said that the gap didn’t really bother ... more >

Squirrel want
January 19, 2018

Friday News: The good, the bad, and squirrel sex

JanetPublishing Newsgender inequality / Hairpin / pay gap / sex / squirrels / The AwlComments Off on Friday News: The good, the bad, and squirrel sex

Writing for the Awl Was the Best Mid-Career Decision I Ever Made – So you’ve probably heard that the Awl and the Hairpin are both shutting down. There have been a number of pieces on the Awl, especially, and its impact on writing and publishing and all sorts of other ... more >

April 20, 2016

Wednesday News: Scamming Kindle Unlimited, genes & sex, cholera & the UN, and Andy Weir’s next book

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / cholera / genetics / Kindle Unlimited / science / sex / SFF7 Comments

KU Scammers on Amazon – What’s Going On? – So remember when Kindle Unlimited was populated by a bunch of really short books, and Amazon changed the payout terms to number of pages read, not number of books? Well, keep in mind that authors are paid from a communal trough of ... more >

February 4, 2016

Thursday News: Hong Kong banned books, Kindle’s software improvements, superhero sex, and tomato juice at 37,000 feet

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Banned-Books / Comics / Hong Kong / Kindle / science / sex / superheroes12 Comments

The Hong Kong Bookseller Who’s Keeping ‘Banned’ Books On His Shelves – Despite the disappearance (and in a couple of cases, reappearance in mainland police custody) of five bookseller/publishers, some Hong Kong booksellers, including People’s Bookstore owner Peter Tang, are keeping mainland-banned titles on their shelves. It appears to be publishers ... more >

November 27, 2015

Friday News: A bunch of unrelated stuff

JanetPublishing Newsbook exchanges / Harper Lee / HarperCollins / Libraries / publishing / sex / signed books / technology / writing advice3 Comments

On Sex in Fiction – So let’s start with the good. Yes, it’s another one of those author-written semi-promotional pieces, but it also happens to be a nice little companion piece to the several pieces on writing sex we’ve been discussing in recent news posts (and I can’t remember the last ... more >

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