First published in the early twentieth century shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin has been translated by Natasha Randall and republished in 2006. We is considered a precursor to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and has a feeling similar to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, both novels which explore similar themes of a domineering government and a disengaged future society with a fantasy-realism element.
Zamyatin’s book follows the fictional story of a mathematician, D-503. He accidentally falls in love with the revolutionary I-330, who is working to bring down “the state” and the wall separating them from the rest of the world.
When D-503 tries to rationalize his actions, his extreme loyalty to the state causes him serious internal conflict and confusion. He is soon diagnosed by government doctors as having a very rare and serious illness: a soul. Without spoiling the plot development, suffice it to say that the relationship between D-503 and I-330 twists and turns with the rest of the plot, eventually leading to a climax at the end.
Zamyatin creates more texture to this world by referencing “ancient mythology and history” which include things like love, elections, and other emotional experiences that create disorder and unhappiness. Being a productive member of this society is the equivalent of being a machine: unemotional, consistent, and scheduled. Certain hours are reserved for sleep and exercise in order to be a more productive worker for the “one state,” and even sex and relationships are organized to be unemotional and streamlined.
Past reviews of We mention how this book seems to capture what is going to happen, or what was beginning to happen in the first years of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Although this book can easily be related to Stalinist Russia, it has more of a science fiction or futuristic feel, even nearly ninety years after its original publication.
Those who like science fiction and Russian literature will definitely enjoy this book. Chapters are short and terse. If you prefer a more historical view of the Soviet Union under Stalin, check out Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski or Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis.
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When you read stories speculative fiction you are a very special man. They bring the reader of these stories to life. The creation of any character is possible even by me, a 13-year-old boy then, now in a mature man, age. In these days of financial upheaval and insecure you feel, as do if you get away from life for a few hours? Escape from this world of chaos and conflict is essential. It's not just today that we need to do this. The turbulence of world eventsWho have to live can impact on us and our way here for centuries. In recent days, there were pounds of storytellers. They told stories passed on by others from their own minds. My own grandfather was a storyteller who told me stories when I was very young.
The advent of the books about the stories passed by the thousands and more people gradually developed a global market. Today, our young film in video and computer games are submerged, to escape reality, and the best are based onStories from books. The creativity of the 1950s golden decade of my teenage years made a big impression on me. Music changed considerably. arose from the smooth big band sound and jazz, rock and roll and the creation of what I describe as the emotional ballad large. The music called the young people of that time, men and women now in their 60s/70s. Due to sing the wonderful progress of technology, I now these songs. As a young boy in Sheffield miles I would go to different local cinemas to seethe films of the week, including Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, George Formby and many escapist science fiction. Even with a certain Sunday school she shows fifteen episodes, each a week of Flash Gordon.
The decade brought great changes in many markets. placed in the United Kingdom if you are not your (taken an exam than 11 years old) eleven plus you were in the labor market scrap heap. They were considered inferior by the establishment. It took great personal pain andCommitment to fight it out so off. The schools then had their share of poor academic teachers. Men and women with great skills that could not teach! The doctrine is not something you can tell by ticks on the paper. There is a strong quality of interaction between teacher and student. The good teacher must of all he or she knows in a way to inform a response to the majority in a classroom causes, it is a calling than a job. My father was a teacher, I never knew;He disappeared in the war in an airplane somewhere over the ocean when I was two years old.
My imaginative side catapulted me and stopped me down before. It was a great science fiction and speculative fiction era – The Forbidden Planet – The Day the Earth Stood Still, the classical films of the time. Cinemascope and 3-D films were made with thousands of comics in the stores, which strange creatures and super heroes. The eagle came Comiclaunched with the famous character of Dan Dare on the front page. Inside were pages of scientific knowledge of the day, not only written but illustrated in comic book form. At 18:45 on the radio Dick Barton Special Agent and was switching channels on Radio Luxembourg 7pm to hear you could then Dan Dare Pilot of the future. It was rich in the Age of Illusion and raised around the soul from the physical misery. Television has now taken on the option. In the 1970s and 80s, life became morewealthy, the big money could be earned through hard work. This in a way that drove the escapism and brought in the so-called "kitchen sink drama."
The people were in other people to observe problems immersed. As the great Roman Empire, where the masses called to see if could survive a gladiator to be killed by another or a lion. The soaps were blooming and the cinema followed a series of serious family drama. This has been on reality TV, where the human race shows hate all developedJealousy, stupidity and tribulations of real life. This is now slowly declining as a financial depression hits of the world. Well, Doctor Who is back and once again flourishing and so is the movie theater with science fiction and supernatural blockbusters. We have an age again, where we achieved all of our lives and property escape for a few hours.
Nowadays people buy software and experiment in a "self taught" environment. Opening times are word processing output is now much easier than the oldTypewriter to create, then several hours on PDF ebooks can. The creation of a website, took many hours of work, including the handling of HTML. Then you have mastered a film program and put more trailers on You Tube. All this happened in the last 8 years, not bad for me, plus in an age of 65.
My first attempts to write a novel was by hand and then a typewriter. It was a long process and a result of intensive writing, there was a way into my index finger where the pen rested. Ido not think that the modern age, the use of sex or foul language is necessary. In a future technology advanced society, there would be no need for filthy adjectives, to give orders or instructions. Therefore, I would think that books for young people up to be read. However, the evil in people, to escalate to new limits, and that is ugly, as each hero is committed to defeat at last.
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Even if your career doesn’t involve being a full-time writer, being the author of a book can be a huge boon for you. Our society holds authors in such high regard that anyone who has written one is seen as knowledgeable, self-disciplined and special. A book can help your business or career by making you more visible and sought-after for your expertise. All very good things. But if your natural talents don’t involve writing regularly, it may be difficult for you to figure out how to organize your expertise into an engaging book. Luckily, there are tricks that make it far easier to write non-fiction than fiction. Here’s how to get started. I’ll use Dr. Phil McGraw and his successful line of books as my example.
It’s Not About You
Okay, it’s easy to forget that writing a non-fiction book is not about you. After all, most likely, your picture is going to go on the cover! But let’s face it: people are not going to buy your book just because of you. People don’t buy Dr. Phil’s books because they’re so excited to hear what he has to say. No. They are buying it because he’s going to help them solve a problem like losing weight, strengthening a family or salvaging a marriage. Where do you come in? People will be attracted to your overall message and how it makes them feel. Dr. Phil’s message is to make you take charge and “get excited about your life”. That’s what’s going help you lose weight, strengthen your family or salvage your marriage. Note that the message is simple, clear–and not about Dr. Phil. What is your message? Make sure you connect it to others and don’t overthink it. Most likely it’s something you already radiate in your words and your being and you don’t even know it!
What Aspect of Your Expertise Do People Want Most?
What do people come to you for? Are you a mortgage broker, but you find most people come to you with questions about their credit? Are you a family therapist and you observe that most of your patients don’t know how to talk to each other? Are you a house painter and most of your customers don’t know how to choose colors for their home? Wherever you see such a void, there is room for a book on that topic. You have to figure out what people want to know. Notice I use the word “want”, and NOT “need”. People rarely buy what they need, no matter how good it is for them.
That’s a trap many new writers fall into. They write with a sense of duty, thinking “people really need to know this”, like they need to know what being overweight can do to a body in the long term–and that’s probably true. But readers would rather buy a diet book that will tell them how to solve the overweight problem as quickly and easily as possible. Dr. Phil’s The Ultimate Weight Solution is a book about doing the real work of exercising and correcting inner problems to solve weight issues–Dr. Phil has said he didn’t want it to be a book about telling people what to eat. And yet that’s what people wrote in and said they wanted most–they wanted Dr. Phil to tell them what to eat. So what did he come out with next? The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide and then The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook! You too can find out what people want by just asking. Create a survey if that’s possible for you, but the more you can find out about what your readership wants, the easier it will be for you to decide how to write it for them.
Write a Punchy Title
Once you’ve figured out what people want, you have to make it crystal clear that you’re going to give it to them. You’ll do that with the title and subtitle. It may help you write the book if you come up with your title first, because a good title will remind you of what you have promised to deliver. When you find your working straying and unfocused, you come back to the title and think, “oh yeah, I’m supposed to be telling them how to do X.” Ideally, the title should be a grabber, and the subtitle tells exactly what the reader will get. Dr. Phil’s titles do that really well. Here are a few examples: Love Smart: Find the One You Want–Fix the One You Got, and The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom and Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan to Creating a Phenomenal Family. Note how each subtitle makes you think, “Yeah, I want that! or I want to know how to do that!”. Result: reader picks up the book!
Think Steps, Keys and Strategies
Note Dr. Phil’s use of “keys” and “steps” and “plans”. Even if you’re working with a complex subject, you want to chunk it down as much as possible and keep it simple for your readers. You want them to see that they can do X on their own just by reading your book. You will give them everything they need. Again, this tactic will also make it easier to organize all your knowledge and expertise because you know you only have to focus on one particular “how to” and the X steps it will take to handle it.
Tell Stories
This idea goes all the way back to the Bible and beyond: we learn best from stories. It helps to hear how someone else handled the same situation because we can see what is possible. As you outline your book, make a note as to what story or stories you will tell to illustrate every point you’ll be making. Tell the stories of your clients (changing names, of course, to protect their privacy) or use anecdotes from your own life experience. Dr. Phil’s Family First is peppered with his stories of growing up with his own family issues. Make sure you use the right stories. You want them to be clearly connected to your concept so there’s no mistaking your point.
And that’s it. Following these guidelines should help you create a book that not only showcases your expertise, it will also be one that’s sought-after by a market hungry for what you have to offer. All you have to do now is get started!
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Penguin Books India, one of the most famous publishers in India, has indeed added a glorious literary feather to its already shiny image by publishing this book of marvellously multidimensional proportions. The literary audience was delighted when the book was published-in fact it has been one of the most impatiently awaited fiction book of the year-in June this year. Penguin sea of poppies is indeed a literary gem.
The book is a stunningly vibrant and exceptionally human work which goes many steps ahead to confirm his reputation as one of the most important storyteller of the contemporary literary world. At the fictional centre of this epic tale is a big ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a treacherous sea journey across the turbulent waters of the Indian Ocean to the exciting group of Mauritius Islands. As far as the the people on board the ship are concerned, they are just a motley group of of sailors and stowaways, coolies, convicts and other rowdy elements.
The story is based in the times of colonial upheaval in the mid nineteenth century, when the various forces of power, perks, wealth and politics were jutted up against each other in such a manner that the stage was fancily adorned with historically rich characters and happenings. In this fantastic tale the fate has brought together a truly diverse and vast cast of both the Indians and the Westerners, like a bankrupt Raja, widowed village-woman, a mulatto American freedman, a liberal-spirited European orphan and many more. As they go on sailing down the Hooghly and then into the fascinating waters of the sea, their family ties of before are just washed away; and they start viewing themselves as jahaj-bhais, or the so called ship-brothers, who now get on with the task of building a whole new set of lives for themselves in the far away islands where they are moving on to. But it happens to be the beginning of a very unlikely dynasty.
Sea of Poppies is in fact the first in Amitav Ghosh’s brand new trilogy of novels. The tremendous sweep of this historical tale of high sea adventure and drama covers the lush poppy fields by the Ganga, the rolling high seas with their furious storms and pleasantly glorious days, and the exotic and unparalleled backstreets of China during the time of the Opium Wars. However, it is the vast panorama of characters, whose multifarious diaspora encapsulates the vexed and perplexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes the book so breathtakingly alive. It indeed is a masterpiece, like most of other Amitav Ghosh books, from the mighty pen of one of the world’s finest novelists during the contemporary times.
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Some of the best inspirational fiction books are books that are actually compilations of many short stories. Sometimes short stories can be more inspirational for a reader than a very long book. Why? It is simple, because each short story tells a story that the reader can relate with.
Shorter stories get the message of inspiration to those that read them. Perhaps, you have read some of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, these are very good and they seem to hit home with many people, perhaps, that is why these books are so successful and in fact, one of the most successful series of books ever published.
All along this same theme of books, I found one that was truly incredible and written by a number of very famous people. I’d like to recommend this book to you;
“More Stories for the Heart” Compiled by Alice Gray; Multnormah, Sisters, OR; Date: 1997
So, you ask, what is it about this book that made me fall in love with it? Well, let me take some time and explain in more detail why this book is so special for me, and why I believe that you should have a copy of it in your own library. This book has been broken down into chapters of short stories along the categories of;
compassion,
encouragement,
virtue,
love,
family,
life
faith.
All over 285 pages of stories that will inspire you and your loved ones; there were so many wonderful stories in this book that it’s hard for me to take a single one that I would recommend over the others. They were all that good. If you know someone who needs a little uplift in life then this is the book you need to buy them. So please consider it.
You’ve spent months – if not years – lovingly crafting your book. Now it’s time to choose the right editor to edit your writing.
The trouble is there are so many of editors to choose from. How do you go about finding the right one? How do you know who to trust? Who will work best with you?
Here’s a quick checklist to help you make the right decision:
1. Check out the testimonials
Don’t be fooled by a fancy webpage and clever sales copy. This is just smoke and mirrors. Check out the editor’s testimonials page. Are these red hot testimonials? Or are they lukewarm? If they don’t have any testimonials at all, don’t even think about it!
2. Think ‘Quality Control’
Your alarm bells should sound if you see editorial services that list scores of editors. Bigger does NOT necessarily mean better. Some agencies seem to stack up the names in the same way that a collector hoards stamps. Many of these editors have simply written in with their resumes asking for work – then immediately get uploaded on to the website because it ‘looks good’ (well, to the unknowing). Think about quality control. You need to check exactly WHO is monitoring quality and HOW.
3. Think results, results, results
Over the years, I’ve met published authors and professional editors who are absolutely CLUELESS. They sometimes have wonderful resumes, and credentials as long as your arm. I’m talking about editors who have worked in top publishing houses for 20 years or more and authors with strings of literary awards. But here’s the thing – they may work well on their own or in a certain environment. But when it comes to helping others, they are nothing short of useless.
It’s easy to get taken in by someone’s professional resume. However, what you really need to know is that they will give YOU the results that YOU want. Results are all that matters!
4. Are you on the same wavelength?
Make sure you are both trying to achieve the same goal. It’s no point working with an editor who loves highbrow literary fiction if your book is for the mainstream mass market. Make sure you both talk the same language. Check out the testimonials to make sure their aims align with yours.
5. Pay peanuts, get monkeys!
I can’t remember who first said this to me, but this is SO true. Don’t just go for the cheapest option. If you pick a service just because it’s cheapest, it may end up costing you in the long-run. I’ve made this same mistake myself many times. The fact is someone who is well-paid for their services is more likely to pay meticulous care and attention to your work, than someone who is paid peanuts!
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This is a cool idea because you will be writing your book report as if you are interviewing the person or persons from the book. It may be easiest if you are doing a book report on a non fiction based book.
Prepare about 10 questions that you will ask this person. Now you are not actually going to interview the person from the book but you are imagining you are doing this and are going to answer the questions from information in the book. Make sure your questions lead to a detailed answer which depicts information from your novel. If you imagine this person as a famous person think about the type of magazine that may have an interview for this person and act like you are a reporter for that magazine. Be creative in your questions. Here are some examples of types of people and the Magazine ideas they may be featured in for you to come up with an idea. You can even make up a name for your magazine. Like Sports and More or News Daily.
Examples
Sports athlete – like Sports Illustrated
If they are in government or politics – like Newsweek
Movie star or musician – like Vogue or Rolling Stone
Draw a cover for the magazine. You will want to make a picture of your person that you are interviewing because that is what the story is about. Please make it interesting by using lots of color and add backgrounds. For this cover you can use some shiny paper instead of regular copy paper to make it look shiny. Or a trick you can do is use crayon and then place an old piece of fabric on top and lightly iron with a very lightly warm iron to slightly melt the crayon giving it a shiny appearance.
Finally make your opinion of the person and what you think about what they said in their answers which was from the book information. You are just basically giving your thoughts on the book and how you interpreted the information within it or in this case the answers to questions.
This may seem strange but it is just another way to be creative and prepare a book report. You are still documenting information about the book and showing the main points within it and and setting, timeline, and characters, however, to your teacher it will show thought and effort and may earn you a better grade.
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Many successful authors and publishers know that talk radio is the perfect venue for promoting almost any non-fiction book. Most authors of how-to books, financial advice books, self-help books, travel books, medical books–even history books– are welcome guests on talk radio because the hosts like to present their listeners with useful and topical information from an expert.
So where does that leave fiction authors? Facing an uphill battle! To put in blunt terms, it’s been tough for fiction writers to land those coveted talk radio interviews and attract other major media exposure. But don’t give up hope because it’s not a lost cause. There’s a knack to grabbing the attention of hosts and producers and getting booked on their shows. You have to know how to throw them the perfect pitch.
Fortunately, over the past 18 years we’ve developed several innovative and tried-and-true techniques for promoting both nonfiction and fiction authors. I’ll share a few of our secrets with you.
· When crafting a talk radio campaign, the first thing we do is examine the author’s profession, background/experience, and interests. Is there anything fascinating, glamorous or downright compelling about the author? If there is, we pitch this information in an exciting way that makes hosts feel like the author is a ‘must-have’ interview.
· Take one of our clients, a former judge on the Arizona Supreme Court. While his nonfiction book was a great behind the scenes look at the judicial system we knew the angle had limited mileage. We played it for as long as we could and then it was time to create some new angles.
· Because we keep a good pulse on what the public’s talking about, we knew that his profession alone would make him an ‘in-demand’ guest. By positioning him as a judge who would comment on legal issues in the news (and there were a lot of big cases at the time) we generated a great ‘buzz.’ When all was said and done, he appeared on well over a hundred shows across the nation. And, during the course of those interviews, the hosts gave him ample time to discuss his book and plug it.
· After we’ve scoped out our author’s background, we look at the book‘s key message and how it might tie into current events or hot topics. For instance, we had a client who had written a book instructing people on how to get their “estates” in order…while the Terri Schiavo controversy happened to be raging. So we were able to tie our author’s book into the ongoing national debate. Needless to say, this author was a hot commodity on talk radio and got a huge amount of media attention for himself and his book.
· If we can’t focus the pitch around the author or a current event, we’ll find a theme or ‘hot-button’ issue in the book that people can relate to. In fact, this is our “secret” for promoting fiction authors. We once had an author come aboard with an interesting fiction title but the story didn’t tie into any current or newsworthy events. Nor was our author a celebrity of any sort. But we found a storyline we knew people could relate to and that our author could talk about: “Is it possible to outgrow sibling rivalry?” The subject struck a chord with so many hosts and producers that we ended up surprising the client with the number of bookings.
As experts in talk radio, people often ask us how we can possibly book 50 to100 interviews a week while staying within the strict guidelines of stations and markets we use. The answer is simple: It’s the close relationships we have with hosts and producers. Even more basic than that– we know what the media is looking for in a guest…and, that’s exactly what we give them. And now you know what they’re looking for, too!
Hope these select tips help you market both yourself and your book to the media.
About Marsha Friedman: Marsha Friedman is the CEO of EMSIncorporated, (EMSI) a leading publicity firm that has represented many well known clients such as Motown’s Temptations, Teamsters Union President Jim Hoffa, Jr., National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, Bristol Myers Squibb, Financial TV personality, Jim Rogers and Dr. Barry Sears.
About EMSIncorporated: EMSI is a nationally-recognized publicity firm specializing in arranging interviews on radio shows around the country, appearances on local and national TV and obtaining editorial coverage in newspapers and magazines.
According to recent surveys, nearly three-quarters of adults would like to write (and publish) a book. And indeed there is no better time than now to start. For most people the best bet is a non-fiction book based on their expertise. There’s no doubt that many fiction writers make a lot of money, but it’s much more difficult to break into the fiction market than it is the non-fiction market. People usually look for “well-known” authors when they buy a fiction book. This doesn’t apply in the case of non-fiction books; they’re usually looking for information, or how to solve a particular problem, and they’re not worried about who the author is.
Five good reasons why you should consider writing a non-fiction book are as follows.
It’s no easier to get a book published by a major publisher than it has been in the past, but if you fail to get your book published after trying for a few months you can easily self-publish it. Self-publishing is now, in fact, an excellent option because it is relatively easy (see my book “You Should Publish a Book“). Programs now exist for setting it up on the computer so that it looks like a book you would find in a bookstore. Furthermore, with the internet (particularly, Amazon.com) it is now much easier to sell it on your own. It’s a good idea to have some expertise in the field or area you plan on writing about, but if you’re uncertain, or bump into a problem, you have the internet. It is, without a doubt, a gold mine of information. You can find information on almost anything with a few clicks. “But if you can find the information on the internet, everybody else can,” you say (and it’s free). That’s true, and this is where your expertise comes in : your job is to explain and simplify it, and give advice about it. People still like to get information from somebody they trust, and they prefer all the information to be in one place (as in a book). Another reason for writing a book is that it brings a certain amount of prestige, and it makes you an expert in the area you are writing about. Once you’re established as an expert, many new doors will be open to you. There’s also a certain satisfaction in writing a book. It’s a challenge that sharpens your writing skills, and it gives you a feeling of accomplishment when you’re finished. Finally, but not least, it can earn you considerable money in your spare time. In fact, your book could become a “best seller” and make you rich. So it’s important to remember: If you don’t try, you’ll never know how successful you could have been.
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