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I've just added six more categories:
Book tour: this one's obvious. Is for all the posts about book tours. In general,
are they a good idea? And specifically,
reports from on the road.
Book challenges: this one's for
censorship,
book banning, and
challenges, which are sadly common in the land of YA.
Publishing business: this is for the posts specifically about
some aspect of the
publishing business. Such as what an
editorial letter is,
money, and
how to get an agent,
publishing in Australia etc etc.
Titles & names: I noticed that I talk about the
problem of coming up with a title for ...
Posted by Justine at 18:25, January 3rd, 2009 under Admin, Search Terms |
Posted by Justine at 14:31, June 30th, 2008 under Bloggery, Search Terms |
To the person who got to my site by googling "is it bad to wear a long t-shirt with footless tights":
Yes! It is very very very bad indeed. Burn those footless tights immediately. And long T-shirts should only be worn to bed. Not out on the streets! What were you thinking?
Posted by Justine at 12:52, October 4th, 2007 under Fashion, Search Terms |
I know I'm a
teeny bit obsessed with
search terms that lead to my website (especially when deadlines loom), but today's list was a truly bumper crop. Here are my faves:
Q:
does euphoria mean something bad?
Dr Justine says: It can. It really really can. Over-the-top happiness can lead to all sorts of injuries. I broke my toe that way once.
Q:
where does andrew symonds lives 2006?
A: Ya know, I have a feeling it's prolly better that you don't find out. Leave the poor bastard alone. He's injured and in South Africa. Stalk someone else!
Q:
what genre do first time novelists publish easiest?
A: What now?! There is no answer to this question. There is ...
Posted by Justine at 0:38, March 3rd, 2006 under Cricket, Search Terms, Sport, Words & Language |
Top ten searches that led to my site over the last 24 hours:
jill grinberg agent
bladder torture
strange color puce
batsmen losing balance and hitting wicket
what a boy looks like naked
best sledges
my sister naked
publishing, book, advances, average
is new york or sydney better
dumping someone
Is there no topic on which I'm not an authority? Nope, not one.
Update: Just so as you know, I cheated and left out all the obvious searches like my name, books I've written,
Elvis and
mangosteens.
Posted by Justine at 0:44, February 19th, 2006 under Bloggery, Search Terms, State of the World |
Someone landed at my website after googling the following question:
"how do publishers decide print runs first second printing"
I don't really know the answer to that question. Or, rather, questions, because the decision on the initial print run is a different (and more complicated question) than whether to reprint or not. If the book's selling well and likely to sell out the first run, then you print again.
Or, mostly, I have heard horror stories like a recent unexpected bestseller whose first print run sold out flash quick and the editor had to plead with higher ups to do a second print run.
There are also houses that do such tiny initial runs that second printings are inevitable.
One editor told me that ...
Posted by Justine at 14:39, November 5th, 2005 under Search Terms |
I'm endlessly fascinated by the search terms that lead people to my website. Today these desperate words typed into google led them to some
not-exactly-directly-related pearls of wisdom: inspire me to write my thesis.
Ouch.
I remember those days. I finished my PhD thesis in 1996, having started researching it in 1991 (and taken a year off due to some bone breakage), but it sure felt like it took a lot, lot, lot longer than that. At the time writing my thesis seemed by turns nightmarish, unendurable, hallucinegenic, boring, fun, hideous, never-ending and plain out-and-out pointless. I endlessly procrastinated until, faced with the prospect of no more scholarship, I buckled down and wrote day after day, night after night, barely sleeping, ...
Posted by Justine at 18:38, July 14th, 2005 under Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Bloggery, Search Terms |
