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News&gossip for writers, hosted by uber-agent Peter Cox and the folk at Litopia Writers Colony


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The Joy Of Rejection
Imagine this. You have a letter of acceptance in your hand, and one of rejection... which one are you going to brood over? If you’re like most writers, you’ll take the rejection to heart, while discounting the positive news. There seems to be something about human nature that focuses on the sting of rejection while negating the good stuff. But why? With Dr. Susan O’Doherty on tonight’s illustrious panel, we’re probing the hidden depths of the human psyche to find out the evolution...

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[ Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:57:09 +0000 ]


The Wrong Palin
Chris Christie, the new Republican Governor Elect of New Jersey, has been called out as a copyright thief – by Monty Python. Scholastic tells an author to rewrite books to exclude a gay couple if she wants to be included in their book fairs. And After indie booksellers announce plans to buy their books at Amazon and Wal-Mart (it’s cheaper than buying from the publishers), the big guys limit the amount of books purchasers can buy. Which just goes to show, you should never announce your evi...

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[ Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:29:49 +0000 ]


Writers As Slaves
Peter gives a brief update on current developments in the Colony; when will all the construction work end? And then, he tackles a subject that’s looming large on the writing horizon – the way in which writers are increasingly being used as slave labor. Maybe writers are their own worst enemy? ...

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[ Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:22:16 +0000 ]


Live From The Canarian Islands
Eve’s Salmagundi Club comes to us live and direct from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, where it’s an impressive 90 degrees (London is shivering in damp grey mist). But doesn’t the eternal sunshine of paradise get a bit boring eventually? Not if you’ve brought some holiday reading! Eve and Richard gives us a run-down of the books they’ve consumed to date. ...

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[ Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:31:15 +0000 ]


Party Pooping Potter
Did Harry Potter’s lawyers (alright, Warner Bros lawyers) act way too heavy-handedly when they recently acted to suppress a Harry Potter-style house party in London? Press reports suggested they acted like party poopers – but on today’s Write Report with Donna Ballman, we look at the evidence and conclude rather differently. Also, there are at last moves in the ponderously slow English legal system to reform our appallingly anachronistic criminal libel laws - about 900 years too late - a...

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[ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:27:26 +0000 ]


Noddy Experiences Relativistic Effects
It’s our Halloween show, and the most horrifying item on tonight’s agenda is unfortunately all too corporeal: one publisher has summarily announced their new e-book royalty rate will be a meagre 20% - not of the retail price, but of the net amount received. Truly gruesome. Apart from that, we’re looking at book titles –how choosing the right one can land you in the bestseller lists. Then there’s the increasingly spooky Large Hadron Collider – are people in the future trying to sen...

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[ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:46:30 +0000 ]


It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Who You Know Knows
Monday’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club features an insightful straw poll that sheds some light on the myth (or is it?) that it’s incredibly hard to get a book published without having prior connections within the industry. Does cold querying work in this day and age? Find out! ...

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[ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:18:27 +0000 ]


Love Me Like A Reptile
When love is not madness, it is not love” wrote the C17th Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca – although he might easily been referring to tonight’s Litopia After Dark, in which we learn of the amour fou of one Professor Arthur David Horn, late of Yale and Colorado State and an esteemed expert in the somewhat arid subject of biological anthropology. Chancing one day to fall in love with a metaphysical healer, Professor Horn’s eyes were suddenly opened to the reality that surro...

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[ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:22:19 +0000 ]


Oh No, it's SuperInjunction!
Friday’s WRITE REPORT with Donna Ballman continues to monitor the fallout from the infamous Trafigura case: the Swiss multinational sought and obtained an injunction in Britain’s notoriously libel-friendly courts that effectively prevented the media from reporting the proceedings of the Houses of Parliament! Maybe its time to bring a little democracy back to the country that claims to have invented it...? In California, a Los Angeles judge has refused an injunction against Chris Rock's lat...

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[ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:05:45 +0100 ]


A Reality Check Concerning The E-Book
The noise inside the publishing industry about the e-book is almost deafening. It’s close to accepted wisdom amongst many publishers that the e-book is set to replace the “traditional” book as the dominant means of publishing – sooner rather than later. Yet, with so many unresolved issues concerning this new medium, is this a sensible assumption? Even more importantly, what do “ordinary” book buyers really think? Today, Peter does something that perhaps more people in publishing ...

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[ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:54:12 +0100 ]


Our Great Leap Forwards
Peter’s is here today to report on the latest developments inside the Colony: it’s all change as the new Litopia website has been unveiled, and inevitably, there are some teething problems. Listen to get up-to-date with the latest news about our biggest leap forward yet......

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[ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:38:39 +0100 ]


Raining on Your Own Parade
What sort of impression should you give to your agent or publisher – and does it matter? Eve’s eye has been caught by the sorry story of a writer who spent three years writing her book, another year trying to find an agent, and finally – just when all seemed perfect… disaster struck! But whose fault was it?...

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[ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:56:16 +0100 ]


Pigs Might Fly
You would be excused for being heartily sick and tired of hearing about the Google Book Settlement, but... pay attention for another few minutes this morning, if you don’t mind – this is important, and it will probably affect you. Also in today’s Write Report with Donna Ballman, we’re talking about the libel suit that was filed a few months ago in London against Random House, publisher of “The Billionaire’s Vinegar’’… and a new survey (don’t you just hate that phrase?) claim...

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:17:50 +0100 ]


A Thousand Words
If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words (and the case has not been conclusively proven either for or against) then what are we to make of the current Flash Fiction contest in the Colony that invites writers to concoct a story evoked purely by one black and white photo? In today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club, we look at other sites that seek to similar inspire authors with visual hints – and also, we’re having quite a bit of fun with a sweet little site that the OUP have just u...

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[ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:50:28 +0100 ]


Dead Authors Society
Things have come to a pretty pass when publishers prefer to issue the minor works of dead authors rather the contemporary work of living writers. But that’s what’s happening in today’s muddled publishing scene: the barrel is being scraped so hard there’s hardly any of it left. David Foster Wallace, Nabokov, William Styron, Graham Greene, Carl Jung and Kurt Vonnegut are all due for creative evisceration over the coming months as estate and editors consider what they can patch together f...

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[ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:55:00 +0100 ]


Winnie The Pee
Life get’s stranger, doesn’t it? And it seems that few areas are more bizarre than the publishing world. In this week’s WRITE REPORT with Donna Ballman. The FTC plans to require online book reviewers (bloggers... that means you!) to disclose whether they have received free books from publishers and will be treated as “endorsers”. The BookLocker.com lawsuit against Amazon's restrictive print-on-demand policy gains some traction under US anti-trust laws. The estate of James Joyce e...

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[ Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:22:39 +0100 ]


Should You Have Sex With Your Editor?
David Letterman did it. So did Elliot Spitzer, Bill O’Reilly and scores of others (yes, it happens in the UK to, but their antiquated libel laws are often used to conceal the sordid facts). So – does it happen in publishing? And – if you’re an author, should you ever consider sleeping with your editor to advance your manuscript? Today’s show offers advice and insights!...

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[ Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:40:50 +0100 ]


The Best Opening Lines Ever
On today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club we’re looking at opening lines. How important are they really – can they make the difference between a hit and a miss? Is “Call me Ishmael” really the best opening line of any novel (the editors of American Book Review think so). Peter and Eve discuss what works and what doesn’t, and reveal their own favorites – what’s yours?...

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[ Sun, 4 Oct 2009 20:21:36 +0100 ]


Smells Like Books
The first live LITOPIA AFTER DARK of the season returns with the massively diverse smorgasbord of ingredients that you’ve come to expect and, we hope, love! Our vintage panel comprises Donna Ballman, Eve Harvey, Dave Bartram and special panellist and business guru Martyn Daniels. Topics covered and links include: * What can today’s publishing business learn from the long-standing success of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary? * Scotland is full of dangerous natives who speak an incomprehen...

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[ Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:54:52 +0100 ]


Writers of the World, Unite!
Time for our weekly review of the important news from the wild and wacky world of publishing... courtesy of Donna Ballman’s WRITE REPORT. Today, we’re considering how the Society of Authors intends to take “for urgent collective action” against the cuts in author advances, which reports suggest are being slashed by as much as 70%. We’re exploring the mysteriously fascinating world of art forgery with news this week that Mexican prosecutors are investigating allegations of wholesale f...

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[ Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:49:32 +0100 ]


Pardon Us While We Change
The new Litopia website will soon be unveiled, and it’s the biggest leap forwards we’ve ever had in our seven-year history of being the best writing community on the net. In today’s daily, peter explains some of the things that have been happening behind the scenes, and what you can expect to see from October 16th. ...

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[ Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:43:00 +0100 ]


Tolkien - Would He Be Published Today?
Peter’s holiday reading included a long-overdue reading of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. While doing so, a dangerous thought occurred... would such an epic story of good versus evil be published today? Listen to the show to find out!...

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[ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:35:06 +0100 ]


Submit Or Hunker Down?
We’re back! Peter’s returned from his seaside vacation, and Eve (whose Salmagundi Club kicks off the week) is engrossed by a discussion in the Colony that runs as follows: “Again and again I'm hearing that publishers and agents are very, very nervous of taking on anyone, particularly new writers, in these precarious financial times. So are we wasting our submissions by sending them in at the moment? Might it be better to hunker down and write another book (or two) and save them to submit ...

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[ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:15:50 +0100 ]


Isolarion - James Attlee
Today there's another chance to hear the entire interview with author James Attlee about his stunning new book "Isolarion". An initially modest idea - not much more than a walk down a road in the author 's home town of Oxford - it has been widely praised as a bravura display of writing talent. This revealing discussion explains how such an unusual book is conceived, written and sold....

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[ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:16:38 +0100 ]


Face-To-Face: This Time It’s Personal!
London’s Poetry Café was never more vibrantly electric this summer than when it hosted our first two live Litopia After Darks: Face-To-Face. And tonight, we’re delighted to bring you – complete, unedited but by no means virgo intacta – the second and most ebullient show. The format is a little different to the usual LAD mixture – and none the worse for that, you may think. Panellists tonight were Eve Harvey, Richard Howse, Donna Ballman and Amanda Lees. Peter attempted to keep som...

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[ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:40:56 +0100 ]


Cryptomnesia
Both Mark Twain and Helen Keller suffered from cryptomnesia. At various times of the lives, they presented work they clearly believed was original, and were subsequently mortified to then be accused of appropriating others' work. It seems unlikely that either of them, or George Harrison, or any number of other celebrated creative figures with much to lose would have purposely copied easily-traced material and tried to pass it off as their own. Yet that is what they did... cryptomnesia! That's...

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[ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:17:34 +0100 ]


Exclusive Show Just For iTunes Listeners!
Please listen to this show if you’re one of our valued iTunes listeners - it contains important information affecting our shows over the next two weeks....

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[ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:53:18 +0100 ]


The Land of Lost Kindles
It's a busy Write Report today with Donna - What happens to your library if your Kindle is lost? (The answer is that thieves apparently get to keep it!)... A Portuguese judge bans a new book that says Madeleine McCann is dead - how can they do that? And - restrain yourselves, folks - it's back to Amazon again, who are now facing the legal fallout ensuing from that "1984" debacle... Donna herself will be reappearing in just a few hours on Litopia After Dark, and Peter's off for a two-week break...

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[ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:36:18 +0100 ]


Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street - Mahfouz
It’s our last discussion for a while with John Simopoulos and again, we’re focusing on our series entitled Books That Matter. Galsworthy and Proust? Not worthy to hold a candle to today's featured author, Mahfouz - says John. Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature. The trilogy of books - Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street - are collectively titled the Cairo T...

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[ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100 ]


The First Trilogy - Joyce Cary
John Simopoulos is back today with another in our series of Books That Matter to tell us about an author who John knew personally: Joyce Cary. "By the end of his life", wrote Brad Leithauser in the New York Review of Books, "Cary's confident and fluent books received a critical and popular success, yet the path to this success was wearisomely tortuous. Cary was approaching forty-five when his first novel, Aissa Saved, appeared in 1932. More than two decades of literary floundering, of false s...

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[ Tue, 8 Sep 2009 17:22:32 +0100 ]

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