Gina Webb, Book Reviewer: A Bridge to Understanding

September 18, 2013 · by Susan Diffenderfer | in The Necessity of Reading, The Writing Life | tagged book review, book reviewer, Charles McNair, Decatur Book Festival, Gina Webb, Jesmyn Ward, Kate Tuttle, Lev Grossman, National Book Award, reading with intent, Salvage the Bones, Teresa Weaver | 6 Comments

At the Decatur Book Festival recently, I attended the panel on the art of book reviewing which was made up of three local reviewers and two authors. Since this is a topic of great interest to me as a bookseller, I thought it would make an interesting blog post to increase our collective knowledge. Gina Webb, book reviewer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, agreed […]

Confessions of a Closet FF Writer: Part 3

January 10, 2013 · by Chrinda Jones | in The Writing Life | tagged Alice in Wonderland, Bronte Sisters, Cassandra Clare, Elementary, Fan Fiction, fandom, fanzines, Fifty Shades of Grey, Lev Grossman, Meg Cabot, Sherlock Holmes, Spockanalia, Star Trek | Leave a comment

“Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, […]