Let's Hear it for "Malarkey"!

In the public interest, and inspired by Vice President's Biden use of "malarkey,"  I did some research and came up with a few more  synonyms for nonsense that you can shout at the TV the next time you hear a politician (fleshpresser) lie (draw a longbow). My favorite is rannygazoo, but for the full list you'll have to hop over to Women of Mystery.

In his 2009 interview in The Guardian, William Trevor, the great Irish novelist and short story writer said: “To me, writing is entirely mysterious. If I didn’t believe it was a mystery, the whole thing wouldn’t be worthwhile. I don’t know not just how something is going to end, but what the next couple of lines are going to be.”

I discuss Trevor's novella, My House in Umbria at Women of Mystery today.

A Hypothetical

In the course of doing research for an article, you come across a piece in which the author, Ms X, cites a source you’d like to use. You tweak her language, i.e. paraphrase her paraphrases, and omit any reference to Ms X. Thus you make it appear that this is your own work.

Is this plagiarism? I vote yes...

Read more at Women of Mystery

A Recent Conversation with PJ Nunn

Here's an excerpt from my recent conversation with PJ Nunn over at Bookbrowsing.  Join us there if you'd like to read more.


PJ: Writing new material, rewriting, submitting new work, waiting, promoting published work…the list is large. How do you manage to divvy up your time to give adequate attention to all needed areas?

Anita: Here are my personal rules for hanging onto my sanity. Put the writing first; develop a tolerance for weeds and dust; no Internet, including email, before three p.m. Do I follow these rules religiously? Take a guess.

New Review

You can read the full text of Carol Crigger's review at  Buried Under Books.

"The cast of fully realized characters in Damned if You Don’t runs the gamut of good and bad, just like you’d meet anywhere. Determining which is which is what puzzles Hannah. Politics in the small town, complete with nepotism and inter-relations rings true. The mystery is a good one, well plotted and paced, with surprising twists. Page is a writer to watch."

Reviewed by Carol Crigger, July 2012.
Author of Three Seconds to Thunder.

GIVE AWAY

Warren Bull is interviewing me today over at Writers Who Kill. I'm giving away a copy of Damned If You Don't to one lucky person who leaves a comment.

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