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Seth Fischer bio ↓  ·  July 10th, 2011  ·  filed under Other

Apparently romance novels are getting us knocked up and giving us STD’s and making us enter unhealthy relationships and the list goes on and on and on. (via)

“It may not be due to any particular deficiency in the magazine, but instead to the fact that we haven’t recently been writing the type of THING that you use.” In the 40′s, John D. McDonald, after getting popular enough to be solicited by magazines, began sending them form rejections.

“Perhaps more than any other writer in the twentieth century, he knew how to control his image.” — The Paris Review on Nabokov’s marketing talents.

A new website devoted to publishing unfinished novels (along with explanations of why they are unfinished), from The New Pages.

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Seth Fischer's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, Pank, Guernica, Monkeybicycle, Gertrude, and elsewhere. He's working on a novel about a girl who accidentally raises an army and destroys the world, and he's founding editor of The Splinter Generation. He also teaches and tutors and administrates and does copyediting and copywriting so that he can pay bills, but that only works sometimes. If you could help him make that work all the time, he would probably give you a hug, but only if you wanted one. Reach him at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com or @sethfischer. More from this author →

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