SOMETHING I KNEW ONCE BUT FORGOT
STATUS: The Oscar nominees are out, and now the rest of January and early February will be filled with either frantically running to the theater to see the movies I’ve missed so far, or being filled with guilt that I’m at home lazily Netflixing movies that aren’t even remotely connected to little gold statues (read: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II). At least I downloaded the theme song to Slum Dog Millionaire on iTunes. That’s one step in the right direction.
FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: After Levar Burton was recently on The Soup, I had a hankering to re-visit Reading Rainbow. Here’s the intro to the show where they encouraged kids to turn off the television and pick up a book…on television.
A good friend recently sent me two copies of Writer’s Digest magazine. After flipping through both of them, I high-tailed my cursor over to their website to subscribe. It’s cheap — like $16/year or something — but the tips and advice they give are enormously worthwhile. One of my favorite things was a graphic interpretation of all the different book markets and genres using a tree. For example, one branch of it was science fiction, then on the branch were leaves representing all the sub-genres of sci-fi. Another branch was horror; another mystery; another romance, etc. It was such a great visual tool. What surprised me was that YA wasn’t a branch, but rather a leaf on all the branches.
So, I think there was a time a-way back when that I had a subscription to WD, and it’s a shame I ever let it lapse. I encourage any writer — publsihed or not — to sign up today. You’ll be getting great information in the mail and you’ll be helping a great magazine in a time when lots of print pubs are folding like card tables. Win-win.
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