
It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer
And Hundreds of Other Facts from the World of Writing
Conari Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 21. August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
194 pages
978-1-57324-722-1 (ISBN)
Description
Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo are the Queen and King of trivia, relied upon by game shows including Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and game manufacturers. Millions of people read their daily newspaper column and together they've written twenty books. The sixth book in the 'Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining (TRUE) Trivia Series' puts a magnifying lens on the wacky world of writers. It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer will tell you everything you could possibly want, or were afraid, to know about writers, publishing, and the writing life. Bitesized facts are organized into chapters including "Everyone's a Critic," "Stranger than Fiction," "From Bad to Verse," "Kiddie Lit," "A Word's Worth," and many more. You'll learn things like: where Proust wrote (in bed with gloves on)/ what Voltaire drank (70 cups of coffee a day)/ and how James Cain prepared himself for yet another publisher's rejection. (The title The Postman Always Rings Twice had nothing to do with the plot of the bestselling novel. It was a private joke of author James Cain. His postman would ring his doorbell twice whenever the many-times-rejected manuscript came back from a publisher.)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley, CA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 181 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57324-722-1 (9781573247221)
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Erin Barrett | Jack Mingo
It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer
And Hundreds of Other Facts from the World of Writing
E-Book
08/2003
Conari Press
€9.49
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Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo have authored 20 books, including How the Cadillac Got Its Fins, The Couch Potato Guide to Life and the bestselling Just Curious Jeeves. They have written articles for many major periodicals including The New York Times, Salon, Reader's Digest, and The Washington Post and have generated more than 30,000 questions for trivia games and game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Their website, which lists their "This Day in History" nationallysyndicated column.