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Apr.29.2013
We first met Chris Baty about a decade ago, when Arielle agented his book No Plot, No Problem: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. We watched as he built this strange, beautiful community of lunatics and dreamers who, every November, write a 50,000 word book in 30...
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Apr.09.2013
Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore on How Writers Can Work with Booksellers to Achieve Success
Huffington Post interview: http://huff.to/Xqfxc6
The Book Doctors have helped dozens and dozens of amateur writers become professionally published authors. They edit and develop books, help writers develop a platform, and connect them with agents and publishers. Their book is The Essential Guide...
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Mar.29.2013
How to build your social network/platform without getting lost in the time suck
http://bit.ly/10jygVk
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Mar.18.2013
We first met Caroline Leavitt at the Miami Book Festival. If you ever have the chance to go to the Miami Book Festival, do yourself a favor and don't pass up the opportunity. Not only is it one of the great international book festivals in the world, it's also the kind of place you run into...
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Mar.13.2013
One of the things that separate amateurs from professionals is their ability to rewrite their novels, to transform them from beautiful but unshaped pieces of clay into glorious works of art that take the breath away.
This transformation doesn’t happen magically. It is the result of numerous edits....
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Mar.10.2013
The Next Big Thing Blog Hop http://www.davidhenrysterry.com/the-next-big-thing-blog-hop/
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Mar.05.2013
Nanowrimo Pitchaplooza announces 25 pitches: c if u got chosen! vote 4 yr favorite http://www.thebookdoctors.com/category/2013-nanowrimo
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Mar.05.2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-henry-sterry/powells-bookseller-author_b_2808798.html
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Feb.20.2013
Very proud of this audio book of Confessions of a Sex Maniac, it's more like a movie soundtrack with music & ambient sounds by my man Michael Jackson (no relation) from Austin TX
http://bit.ly/ZsPGTj
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Feb.16.2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQa9-AauBb8
I'm proud to announce that the first book I ever wrote, which I started 20 years ago, is finally coming out. I'm very proud of this book, and the sublime illustrations by one of my favorite artists, Alain Pilon. But perhaps more importantly...
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Jan.25.2013
Thanks to Public Radio, , Rebecca Kruth, Becky Anderson, and all the great people at Anderson’s Bookshop. Here’s the piece!
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Jan.07.2013
January 23: everything u need 2 know 2 get your novel the love it deserves: http://bit.ly/TYukI3
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Sterry writes with comic brio… [he] honed a vibrant outrageous writing style and turned out this studiously wild souvenir of a checkered past.
Stunning… Sterry's prose fizzes like fireworks. Every page crackles… Very easy and exciting to read--as laconic as Dashiell Hammett, as viscerally hallucinogenic as Hunter S Thompson. Sex, violence, drugs, love, hate, and great writing all within a single wrapper. What more could you possibly ask for?
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—Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Maurice Newman, Irish Times
About David
David Henry Sterry is a best-selling author, award winning performer, book doctor, activist and muckraker. His newest book is Mort Morte, an illustrated novella. He is a also a Book Doctor who co-authored The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published....
Causes David Sterry Supports
Sex Worker Rights
David’s Favorite Books
Clockwork Orange, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, LA Confidential, Noir of the Century, The Marriage Plot, Telltale Heart,