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Yeah, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has co-written at least two books and edited two collections that I know of. She is a "real author," even if she was signing a book edited by her late mother.
Well, the sort of good news is that she--Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg--did co-author a book. Here it is.
Don't bang your head too hard on your desk! I did it for you already.
In recent conversation a friend responded to my summer writing goal with, "A WHOLE novel?" lol.
And we all know her name had nothing to do with her being published.
After giving my mother a piece of mine to read, her criticism: "Why don't you write nice? Sure is a lot of cussing in there."
Forget about trying to explain character's voices to nonwriters. It would take a lecture with doubtful results.
I got positively ecstatic the other day when I saw in the paper that all the Old Bailey records are being made available on the internet.
A lot of them already are. Or is that just the penny dreadful summaries? I'm not sure, but I know I've looked through Old Bailey stuff online, oh, years ago. For a linguistics paper (linguists are another group that gets way excited when random things are put up online).
Although I'm sure her family fame didn't hurt, Schlossberg is a legal scholar in her own right.
Every time I bring a new friend over to my house I always get asked, "Why do you have a book about poisons and serial killers on your bookshelf?"
Actually, maybe you should be that bad. Your ISP can track what you look at, and in fact many of them sell this information to companies who use it to tailor the advertising you see online.That's why I like the Internet. It feels anonymous when I look up psychopathic tendencies. Or how to murder someone with just a ball point pen. (Easy--aim for the temple.) But then the paranoia kicks in and I delete all cookies, all history, but wonder--do "they" as in Big Brother--somehow watch what I do, what sites I visit in the confines of my home office? (Actually, no, I'm not that bad....)
Okay, I got a bit off-topic here.
I often wonder what weird presumptions people would make about my personality just by looking at my bookcase.
Shakespeare... Hugo... Books about French criminals... books by French ex-criminals... an eclectic selection of classical children's literature... More stuff about criminals and law...
And so on.
LOL! Oh, thanks. You had to feed the paranoia,huh?!Actually, maybe you should be that bad. Your ISP can track what you look at, and in fact many of them sell this information to companies who use it to tailor the advertising you see online.
To get rid of nosy cops?I got stopped by the cops once and my car was searched because my back seat was full of books about various ways to kill people, psych books about serial killers, a book by a hit man, a book on natural poisons and some military manuals. (I had just finished moving and hadn't cleaned out my car.) I told him I was a writer and he said, "Why does a writer need to know this stuff?"
Well, if it makes you feel any better, they say that they don't hand out the specific sites you look at, just categories, from which they generate the ads.LOL! Oh, thanks. You had to feed the paranoia,huh?!
She said Jonathan Kellerman. So I go find a book by JK. The first chapter has a series of mutilations and same gender sex.
"MOTHER! Why do you read this crap?"
I get this with my WIP. I personally don't swear, but in this particular WIP, at least half, if not more, of my characters are ex-cons. Trying to convince my mother that it just feels natural for my lads to pepper their speech with the odd expletive is not something that works very well.
LOL! My mom threatened to spank me for using some swear words in my novel. (I'm 36 yrs. old!)
I read somewhere that you have to write like you aren't afraid of what your mother will say.