
It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer
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- 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 best-selling 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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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.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Word from the Authors
- Chapter One: Don't Quit Your Day Job
- Chapter Two: If at First You Don't Succeed
- Chapter Three: What's in a Name?
- Chapter Four: The Ties That Bind...and Sometimes Gag
- Chapter Five: Tips & Tricks of the Trade
- Chapter Six: Eveyone's a Critic
- Chapter Seven: Stranger Than Fiction
- Chapter Eight: Quoth the Writer
- Chapter Nine: From Bad to Verse
- Chapter Ten: By the Numbers
- Chapter Eleven: You're My Inspiration
- Chapter Twelve: Kiddie Lit
- Chapter Thirteen: Incognito
- Chapter Fourteen: Saints & Sinners, Quirks & Outrages
- Chapter Fifteen: "Easy Reading Is Damned Hard Writing
- Chapter Sixteen: A Word's Worth
- Chapter Seventeen: Random Facts from the Bibliophiles
- Chapter Eighteen: The End
- Selected References
- Acknowledgments
- Backcover
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