I collect etiquette books and ran across this little gem recently. What is one of the most common errors people make when speaking to a writer? The woman who goes up to a writer at a cocktail party and tells him how she has always wanted to write but just hasn’t had the time, as […]
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Jennifer Jackson is answering questions about agenting, on her LJ. And today she was talking about the role of net-working and conferences. It’s worth reading, but she basically says that all the net-working in the world won’t make a difference if the book isn’t good. Then she says: On the other hand, Elizabeth Bear introduced
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I collect etiquette books, so if you ever need to know what kind of gloves to wear to an afternoon wedding in 1851 or the proper way to say goodbye to a guest in 1907, come to me. One of the prizes in my collection is The Jolly Book of Funcraft by Patten Beard in
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It was well said by a late eminent barrister, that literature in ladies should be what onions ought to be in cookery; you should perceive the flavour, but not detect the thing itself. Excerpt from The Habits of Good Society Anonymous, 1859
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