{"id":2434,"date":"2012-07-28T19:03:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2012-07-28T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T09:03:14","slug":"miscellaneous-memoranda-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/miscellaneous-memoranda-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Memoranda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Drei<\/a>
Fluffy indicates the time of the crime, while his assistants, Muffin and Smokey, examine the evidence carefully for further clues<\/figcaption><\/figure>–<\/strong> I think I’m writing the wrong sort of books. Apparently<\/a>, cat mysteries, a “subgenre of detective novels in which crimes are solved either by cats or through feline assistance” are selling “millions upon millions of copies”. I tend to agree with the author of the article, who suggests cats are “more likely to commit crimes than to detect them”. (To appease any cat fanciers who may be reading this, here’s a cat comic<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Those who regularly use Wikipedia may be interested in this article<\/a>, which points out that only nine percent of Wikipedia editors are women and that male editors frequently try to delete articles seen as not culturally “significant” enough (that is, too “girly”). This leads, for example, to an article on Kate Middleton’s wedding dress being flagged for deletion for being a “trivial” topic \u2013 although somehow, Wikipedia manages to find the space to include more than a hundred articles on Linux. <\/p>\n

–<\/strong> I love What Was That Book?<\/a>, a community on LiveJournal in which readers write in to ask for help finding books they’ve read so long ago that they’ve forgotten the titles and authors. I’m constantly amazed at how quickly the community is able to identify a book, based on very vague clues. For example<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The last radish in the world (galaxy? universe?) goes up for auction. The person who wins the radish is underwhelmed by the experience of eating the legendary vegetable. It might be a science fiction short story or a scene in a novel.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, within twenty-four hours, a reader had let us know that the book was Beauty<\/em> by Sheri S. Tepper. <\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Kill Your Darlings<\/em><\/a> is hosting a YA Championship, in which their “ten favourite YA fanatics \u2013 authors, buyers, publishers, readers, writers \u2013 [will] champion their favourite Australian YA book from the last 30 years”. The public will then vote on the selected shortlist, although there’s also a People’s Choice category allowing the public to nominate their own favourite books, with book packs as prizes.<\/p>\n

– And my own Vintage Classics book giveaway<\/a> is still on, with entries closing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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