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  1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-two
  2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one
  3. I just published What a Developmental Manuscript Editor Does to Scribd http://bit.ly/lYBtU
  4. Fresh from WritersEditorsChicago reading NYT & high concept pitch (4 ABC WipeOut) humiliation show "it's funny when people fall down"
  5. Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click - http://helpiranelection.com/
  6. Great pix from the streets of Tehran http://www.flickr.com/photos/farnazg
  7. 1 million march silently in Tehran days; nights Basijis govt paramilitary on motorcycles attack kill w/ chains whips pistols truncheons
  8. Google live from Tehran http://www.citizentube.com If it's in Farsi get it live in your own lang http://translate.google.com/#
  9. 63% of people who enter a bookshop do so with no preset idea of which book to buy. Make your book's title a book they will gravitate to.
  10. POD "My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor picked by Viking 4 incredible story, mainstream appeal, effect of Taylor's TED conference
  11. People of color everywhere not served by booksellers & publishers. Coming 2 all neighborhds: pay&read AnyBookATM 320 pp printed in 4 min.
  12. 23,000 sites in the US sell books of which 5,700 are book sellers and of these barely fifty stock deep backlist. -- Jason Epstein
  13. Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #fictionnonfiction, #bookdoctor, #editor
  14. just born greenglowing primates DNA heirs to greenglowing parents whose hair roots skin blood glow under special light-transgenic marmosets
  15. Im cloud computing with virtualized apps-do from anywhere GoogleDocs,BaseCamp,Tripit,ZohoCRM,FreeConf,Faxaway,Expensd Who needs software?
  16. 2008 "traditional" bks, chosen & under sold-rights contracts, down 3% 275,232. PODs traditional+self-+vanity+subsidy bks up 132%-285,394.
  17. Pigs in Alberta Canada caught swine flu from a person--really! Is that why renamed H1N1? Would Orwell laugh?
  18. Voice of Kindle mispronounces "Barack" and "Obama".
  19. I'd love to hear from anyone who has/will attend www.magazinewriters.com 1on1MagazWritersEditors Chicago July18
  20. French people sleep and eat longer daily than others in 18 surveyed countries. Sleep average 9 hrs; eat 2+ hrs--OECD study