Category: On Writing

News Squib#10 – The Bad Sex Writing Award

Extra News TodayIt’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Writing Bad Sex Scenes Gets You an Award — in the UK.

 

It’s called the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. It is supposed to discourage authors from writing an “outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.”  The Literary Review, an upscale British magazine started giving out this annual prize 23 years ago in 1993.  This year, nominees, initially selected by readers,  included best selling authors Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Safran Foer who was nominated for the following gem from Here I Am: Continue reading “News Squib#10 – The Bad Sex Writing Award”

DAY 2: Palm Beach Book Festival

51K65yoQgoL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_Burt Reynolds tells packed house about his loves, fleeting fame and why he loves living in Jupiter, FL.

Burt Reynolds has quite a morning at the Book Festival.  It starts out with a Q&A  with Scott Eyman, and Burt talks openly about Hollywood, fleeting fame and two loves of his life. He chokes up a little talking about Sally Field,  and he talks about his Mensa wife whom he doesn’t name (but who is surely Loni Anderson) and whom he says was brilliant and beautiful, but spent one-and-a-half hours taking off her makeup at bedtime. And then another half-hour “putting on something else on her face… by which time…” Burt pauses, and pretends he’s gone to sleep. Continue reading “DAY 2: Palm Beach Book Festival”

Palm Beach Book Festival 2016: Day One

Highlights with Molly Ringwald,  Dorothea Benton Frank, and Jacquelyn Mitchard

 

Molly Ringwald and husband Panio Gianopoulos in Los Angeles, CA
Molly Ringwald and husband Panio Gianopoulos in Los Angeles, CA

Molly Ringwald,  actress, singer and author (When It Happens to You ) reveals to an audience at the 2016 Palm Beach Books Festival that she likes to write with her husband in the room “to have him there, to touch his knee” if she wants to.  Molly tells the  audience packed into the auditorium at Palm Beach Dramaworks, Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, that she used to date many writers. “Then, my therapist said, ‘Why don’t you be a writer instead of dating them?'” Continue reading “Palm Beach Book Festival 2016: Day One”