[Internationalist Books] event this friday! stop by!

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Wed Apr 25 16:55:57 EDT 2007


*Friday, April 27, at 4:00 in the afternoon*

*ARIEL GORE talks about her new book*

*HOW TO BECOME A FAMOUS WRITER BEFORE YOU'RE DEAD*.



       Ariel Gore is the woman who founded Hip Mama, a parenting magazine
for parents for whom those other parenting magazines don't work.    The *San
Jose Mercury News* dubbed her "Conservative America's worst nightmare."

        Here's a review from Booklist:
The best thing about this writers' guide is that it doesn't sound like any
other writers' guide. Gore tells you to do a lot of things that other
authors say are either wrong or irrelevant. Sure, you can waste time making
yourself a lovely little space to write in, but how's that going to get your
name on a published book? What you need to do, Gore says, is just be a
writer. If you have a story to tell, tell it, and once you've told it,
promote the hell out of it. Publish it yourself, if you have to, and then
sell it. Check the local papers, find a spoken-word open-mike night, and go
read your material in front of an audience. Send out press releases; publish
your own magazine. And, most important, learn real fast that nobody out
there will give a damn about what you have got to say until you make them
pay attention to you. One of the snappiest, most useful books a writer for
hire is likely to read. **



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