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Can Discovereads predict which books you'll like?

Can Discovereads predict which books you’ll like?

How do you decide what books to read next? Do you judge by the cover? Do you buy what’s handy and cheap? You could get a recommendation from a friend, but that can be risky.
Enter Discovereads, a startup now run by Goodreads. Rate at least 10 books, and the [...]

Got 10 Minutes?  Save Publishing!

Got 10 Minutes? Save Publishing!

Supply and demand is the basic rule of economics. But will it work for books? Author Sean Cummings thinks so. He’s created a Facebook group and an accompanying website called “Save Publishing! Read a Book at Bedtime.” The site’s rationale:
Read what you like. A magazine, a newspaper or a book. Read [...]

Reviews from the Younger Set

Reviews from the Younger Set

Here at Fiction Writers Review, many of our contributors are emerging writers, so we love sites that encourage those early in their writing careers. Recently I heard of a few sites that encourage those really early in their writing careers: kids and young adults.
On The Huffington Post, Monica Edinger, a teacher at [...]

The dangers of book recommendations

The dangers of book recommendations

Since I’m a writer, friends often ask me for book recommendations. It’s incredibly difficult to predict what people will like based on other things they’ve liked. Netflix offered a million dollars, literally, to anyone who could improve their predictions on what viewers would enjoy based on other movies they’d enjoyed.
It’s marginally [...]

Tao Lin: Literary guerilla marketer for the Internet era?

Tao Lin: Literary guerilla marketer for the Internet era?

Salon.com’s Daniel B. Roberts profiles Tao Lin, an emerging writer with an eye for unusual self-marketing opportunities.
Lin has sold “shares” of his novel Richard Yates—$2000 for 10% of the domestic profits. He’s also auctioned off a package of goodies—including a T-shirt, an unpublished draft of a short story, and a “unique drawing [...]

Quotes & Notes: The Double-Edged Sword of Creative Community

Quotes & Notes: The Double-Edged Sword of Creative Community

“Stopped hanging other people’s art.”

— a journal entry by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)