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Writer's Blog | Search this Site | Subscribe **Self-publishing Section Don't miss our Self-publishing resource. With articles, features and links, this section will help you find out the information you need to self-publish. We've also got an entire section on book promotion to help you get the word out about your new book. Let Us Publish Your Book! Self publish your work with Instantpublisher.com! Our quick, online book publishing service allows you to have your books in as few as 7 to 10 days. We offer affordable prices, professional color printing and various binding options. Our excellent customer service and step-by-step instructions make self publishing your book simple and easy. Visit Instantpublisher.com and get started today! Joss Whedon Denies He's Making $100 Million for Avengers 2 There have been a lot of crazy rumors about the paychecks associated with Avengers 2 lately. Finally, they got so nuts that writer/director Joss Whedon decided to set the record straight. In a blog post on Whedonesque.com, Joss says that he is not making $100 million to write and direct Avengers 2: He explained, "I was going to let it slide, but I've got this sour taste in my mouth. (Mmmm, lemonade!). Some facts are not facts. I'm not going to go into the whole thing, but jeepers, I'm not getting $100 mil on Avengers 2. If I were, I would come on this site and laugh and laugh and laugh. I'm not making Downey money. I'm making A LOT, which is exciting. I'm not pretending to be a poor farmer, an Everyman, an ANYman." Downey money is $50 million, the amount that Robert Downey, Jr. confirmed to the press that he is earning for the film. Joss warn readers not believe other stories about him, such as 1) that he "can get a movie greenlit by sighing and staring into the middle distance;" 2) that he "ate a unicorn and made it winter for three years;" and 3) that he "can write." We're certainly glad he cleared that up. Those unicorn rumors were very disturbing. Posted on May 23, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet Your Ad Could Be Here! Get your message out with a text advertorial. Text Advertorials consist of 50 words of text, a graphic and link to your website. Click here to request our rate card! New Irish Postage Stamp Contains Short Story A new Irish post stamp issued by Dublin's General Post Office contains a 224 word short story. The stamp was issued to celebrate Dublin's permanent designation in July 2010 as a UNESCO City of Literature. The short story was written last year by Eoin Moore, a regular participant at the Fighting Words creative writing center. The short story was the winner of a competition to capture the "essence of Dublin" in exactly 224 words. The launch of the new stamp celebrates the 15th annual Dublin Writers Festival, which runs from May 20th to May 26th. The stamp can be found on irishstamps.ie. Image: An Post Posted on May 22, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet How To Make It As A Songwriter Mary Dawson's book, How to Get Somewhere in the Music Business from Nowhere with Nothing, gives you the inside scoop on how to make it in the music business as a songwriter. Mary teaches you all you need to know to make your songwriting dreams a reality. Click here to learn more. Dan Brown Talks Inferno With Stephen Colbert Bestselling author Dan Brown was a guest on The Colbert Report to talk about his new book Inferno. Stephen asked Dan why all his books have puzzles to solve in them and why they are so complicated. Dan explained, "I love puzzles. My dad is a big code guy, He's an internationally bestselling math textbook author. I grew up with codes and symbols in the house. We had treasure hunts and ciphers....it's a bit of a fixation." Stephen wanted to know if Dean likes anagrams (we all know he loves them, of course). Stephen then proceeded to make anagrams out of Dan's name, such as "Brand Now" and "Bran Down". When asked why he wrote about Dante's Inferno, Dan said, "I'd never written about the literary arts.. what better piece of literature to base Inferno on? It was a thriller in its day...I wrote this with the hopes that people who love thriller and be inspired to discover or rediscovers one of the greatest books ever written." Stephen also gave Dan lots of grief about writing unflattering things about the Catholic Church, asking him if he wrote about Dante's Inferno to experience where he is going after he dies. It's pretty funny: take a look: Posted on May 21, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet Your Ad Could Be Here! Get your message out with a text advertorial. Text Advertorials consist of 50 words of text, a graphic and link to your website. Click here to request our rate card! J.K. Rowling Reveals the Origins of Quidditch in Unique Annotated First Edition to Be Auctioned for Charity J.K. Rowling has contributed a signed, annotated first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to be auctioned off at Sotheby's on May 21st to benefit the charity English PEN. The auction is called First Editions, Second Thoughts and it features first editions of interesting books with original commentary and 22 new ink drawings by the author. Rowling has contributed a number of drawings showing how she first imagined the characters in the book to look like. She also gives insight on how she created many things in the books, such as the game of Quidditch. About Quidditch she says, "[Quidditch] was invented in a small hotel in Manchester after a row with my then boyfriend. I had been pondering the things that hold a society together, cause it to congregate and signify its particular character and knew I needed a sport. It infuriates men...which is quite satisfying given my state of mind when I invented it." On another page in the book Rowling writes, "I wrote the book in snatched hours, in clattering cafes and or the dead of night. For me, the whole story of how I wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is written invisibly on every page and legible only to me." There are 43 pages in the book with new annotations. Other authors who contributed to the auction include Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Helen Fielding, Nadine Gordimer, David Hare, Seamus Heaney and Kazuo Ishiguro, You can see the Sotheby's listing here. Photo: Sotheby's Posted on May 18, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet Five Authors Selected as Candidates for Nobel Prize in Literature Five writers have been selected as finalists for the 2013 Nobel Prize, but as usual the names have not been revealed. Speculation as to who made the list began after the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy tweeted the news. The Novel Prize for Literature is always shrouded in mystery. No one even knows the date that the winner will be revealed. That date is announced at a later time. The other Nobel Prizes are announced between October 7th and October 14th. Last year's winner was Chinese novelist Mo Yan. 5 candidates have been selected for 2013 #NobelPrize in #Literature according to Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. - Nobelprize_org (@Nobelprize_org) May 17, 2013 Posted on May 17, 2013 Permalink  | Comments (View) |  Tweet

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