Australian Authors Start Online Marketplace
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“Congratulations, you were rejected:”
The Australian Society of Authors has launched a digital marketplace, showcasing and selling the work of writers to publishers, agents, and literary scouts throughout the world. MORE »
“Congratulations, you were rejected:”
They say love hurts , but rejection is soul crushing.
Having your idea, your script, your passion project turned down is a unique kind of pain. It’s personal. This is your baby. And someone just said, “It’s ugly.” Ouch.
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How Star Wars Began: As an Indie Film No Studio Wanted to Make | Vanity Fair
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Learning from 'Silence': Rejection and Success Often Go Together - Sputnik
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The 5 Best and 5 Worst Patricia Highsmith Film Adaptations | IndieWire
How Star Wars Began: As an Indie Film No Studio Wanted to Make | Vanity Fair
Stephen King, Carrie: 30 rejections from publishers.
Things were looking grim for King’s first novel until Bill Thompson at Doubleday finally sent this telegram:
“CONGRATULATIONS. CARRIE OFFICIALLY A DOUBLEDAY BOOK. IS $2500 ADVANCE OKAY? THE FUTURE LIES AHEAD. LOVE, BILL.”
The paperback rights went for 16 times as much, and more importantly: the biggest literary career of modern times was officially launched.
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Learning from 'Silence': Rejection and Success Often Go Together - Sputnik
Child prodigies fascinate because they are auguries. What do they reveal? All children flout both our best and our worst intentions
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MEdia Dragon round-up:
1. New Yorker short story triggers 'record-breaking' response
2. PRH signs lease for new London office
3. The Bookseller 100: 2017 (£)
4. Foley's first crime novel pre-empted in six-figure deal
5. World Book Night titles focus on mental health
6. Haig, Underdown, Hunter make Richard and Judy book club picks
7. Cover design round-up: the best of 2017
8. 'Scottish hygge' to be the new trend, says B&W Publishing
9. Latest CIPFA figures reveal 'catastrophic' scale of library closures
10. Tina Turner's memoir goes to Century for six figures
P.D. Magnus collects fallacies, but not just any fallacies. He collects idiosyncratic fallacies, or “one-offs”. He explains:
Rather than regurgitating all of the usual ones that one can find elaborated in critical thinking textbooks, I collect fallacies which an author names for just one occasion. These one-offs don’t appear on the usual lists. Authors usually do this to condemn some specific target, one who has committed not some generic error in reasoning but the specific if newly-named fallacy of such-and-so.
He also notes that some so-called fallacies, “climb beyond fame into infamy, like the naturalistic fallacy which may not be a fallacy at all.”
Here are a few examples from the list of one-off fallacies he has found:
The rest are here. Reports of your related discoveries welcome.
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MEdia Dragon round-up:
1. New Yorker short story triggers 'record-breaking' response
2. PRH signs lease for new London office
3. The Bookseller 100: 2017 (£)
4. Foley's first crime novel pre-empted in six-figure deal
5. World Book Night titles focus on mental health
6. Haig, Underdown, Hunter make Richard and Judy book club picks
7. Cover design round-up: the best of 2017
8. 'Scottish hygge' to be the new trend, says B&W Publishing
9. Latest CIPFA figures reveal 'catastrophic' scale of library closures
10. Tina Turner's memoir goes to Century for six figures
P.D. Magnus collects fallacies, but not just any fallacies. He collects idiosyncratic fallacies, or “one-offs”. He explains:
Rather than regurgitating all of the usual ones that one can find elaborated in critical thinking textbooks, I collect fallacies which an author names for just one occasion. These one-offs don’t appear on the usual lists. Authors usually do this to condemn some specific target, one who has committed not some generic error in reasoning but the specific if newly-named fallacy of such-and-so.
He also notes that some so-called fallacies, “climb beyond fame into infamy, like the naturalistic fallacy which may not be a fallacy at all.”
Here are a few examples from the list of one-off fallacies he has found:
- fallacy ex homine (alternately, fallacy ab homuncule): The opposite of ad hominem. A sense of decorum stops anyone from making accusations of some particular dark motive, such as racism, while charges of other dark motives are still hurled around. The result is that the unspeakable dark motive gets a free pass. (John Holbo, March 25, 2010)
- fallacies of functional localization: Because an animal can perform a distinct function, it is supposed there is a distinct place in the animal’s body where that function is carried out. (Bill Wimsatt in a public lecture on generative entrenchment, 1998)
- the linguist’s fallacy: A scholar’s error in “imputing his own sophisticated attitudes to the speakers he is studying.” (Max Black in Linguistic Relativity: the Views of Benjamin Lee Whorf, 1956)
- the fallacy of selective emphasis: After abstracting from raw experience, the resultant abstraction is treated as primary and more real than the experience from which it was abstracted. (John Dewey in Experience and Nature)
- the Wittgenstein fallacy: Inferring “that the profession of philosophy as currently practiced is somehow flawed, because a modern day Wittgenstein would not receive recognition or employment.” (Jason Stanley, 2007)
The rest are here. Reports of your related discoveries welcome.
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