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Litopia After Dark 1 - 25

Litopia Writers" Colony

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01:21:02

Litopia After Dark 025 - Going, Going, Gone!

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2009/05/10

On Litopia After Dark this week:- Celebrity auctions are big business, why do people buy this stuff? Robert McCrum gives a run down on the changes during his 10 years at The Observer. Is it mental to go on a Creative Writing course? Computer games and the narrative drive. The Scott McClellan "tell-all" and the legal dispute over the new Ian Fleming book.What am I bid? Charles Dickens' desk goes under the hammer this week and Britney Spears' used chewing gum fetched $14,000 on Ebay recently

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01:04:48

Litopia After Dark 024 - Boys Night Out

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2009/05/10

On Litopia After Dark this week:- Our Special Guest is Jean Hannah Edelstein, writer blogger and literary commentator. Is it time for the first female Poet Laureate? William McGonagall - genius or idiot? Nerds are the subject of a new book. Kindle figures are out and Amazon puts the squeeze on Publishers. And public schoolboys are back - but what makes us love them? Here come the boys! Litopia After Dark flexes its muscles and takes an unemotional, rational, stoic look at the masculine news of

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00:59:35

Litopia After Dark 023 - I Hate You!

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2009/05/10

Yes, there’s an exceptional amount of aggro in the news this week and, as you’ve come to expect, our fearless panel tackles everything head-on as we discuss things we hate, things they hate and things things hate: it’s really one great big hate-fest. To balance out all the negativity we have a very special guest who we love. Prize winning teen author Susie Day's hilarious and touching novel, BIG WOO!, is published by Scholastic (Marion Lloyd Books) in the UK in April and by Scholastic Inc in the

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01:02:59

Litopia After Dark 022 - Author 2.0

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2009/05/10

Tonight on LITOPIA AFTER DARK we're delighted to have as our special guest an acclaimed author who could be considered a signpost to the future. In the words of publishing maven Martyn Daniels (who was our guest on "The Money Issue - How will Authors Survive in the Digital Future?" April 5th) Kate Pullinger is one of the few authors who "gets it" about the new digital media age, and who is already using it in highly creative ways. Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University,

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01:12:00

Litopia After Dark 021 - A Big, Sexy Package

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2009/05/10

Your book is written, re-written, checked and double checked and you're ready to find it a home. But in this ultra-competitive publishing climate how do you ensure your novel escapes from the slush pile? On Litopia After Dark this week our very special guest is Simon Flynn, Publishing Director of Icon Books and we ask him how to sex up our submissions to get them noticed and how publishers themselves package their books to entice the reader. Libraries are branching out: As Swansea Library declares

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01:05:35

Litopia After Dark 020 - Virtual Dinner Party

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2009/05/09

Dinner parties! Soul food for the chattering classes (if you’re a writer that means you). Don't you just love them? If you’re a man, the answer is likely to be "No!". If female, probably the opposite. An intriguing item in Slate explains why eligible men are so difficult to find for these quintessentially middle-class eating events (apart from the fact that they simply don’t like them). Our soigné panellists then examine a new book published this week that re-evaluates the 1960’s - what lasting

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01:06:28

Litopia After Dark 019 - DIY4U? How Writers Are...

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2009/05/09

The dynamically changing nature of the publishing business is creating new opportunities for writers to eliminate the publisher and go straight to the reader directly. This week, Litopia After Dark considers just how easy - or otherwise - an option it is to make a living by doing it all yourself. As the Harry Potter trial wraps up in New York, we spend some time thinking through the arguments and implications of what might be termed a literary weep-off. We also ponder some new opportunities for

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01:06:16

Litopia After Dark 018 - The Sex and Death Show

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2009/05/09

The life of a writer is idyllic; long walks in the countryside, sipping latte in street cafes and pondering the greater meaning of life on the banks of a babbling brook. So everyone thinks! In reality, the writer's life is very hard and in some cases deadly. This week, after news of the death of several prominent internet writers, Litopia After Dark stresses about the exhausting, demanding pressure writers are under. Are we taking on too much? We also discuss V.S. Naipaul (whose reputation is

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01:16:51

Litopia After Dark 017 - The Money Issue - How will...

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2009/05/09

This week Litopia After Dark looks to the future. As we move rapidly into the digital age, there are undoubtedly opportunities for writers, plenty of pitfalls, but mostly uncertainty. It's a timely subject - this week, Britain's Society of Authors alarmed everyone with a shock prognostication: authors may stop writing - so their chairperson said - because it simply wont pay any more! This has also been the week in which the blogs-to-books publisher The Friday Project crashed and burned its way into

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01:02:14

Litopia After Dark 016 - The End Of Civilisation As...

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2009/05/09

People are getting dumber, the world is sinking into entropy and signs of decline and fall are all around. So why are we bothering with Litopia After Dark this week? Well, someone has to sort it out! The Queen's English is on the endangered list. Katie Price (the UK glamour model aka Jordan) has a book in the running for a major award - her publsiher admits that even they don't know how much of it she actually wrote herself - if any! Disney have turned our beloved Famous Five into a Hollywood

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01:02:49

Litopia After Dark 015 - Happy Talk

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2009/05/09

This week, Litopia After Dark boldly goes where no podcast has gone before (note the effortless Roddenberry reference!) as we consider Arthur C. Clarke’s legacy and ponder the literary merit of SF: geek fodder or classic fiction? We also nominate a children's author to (literally) shoot out of the sky - and the Encyclopaedia Britannica goes luxury... but do we love it enough? Also, on the show this week... happiness is overrated... Sebastian Horsley is banned from the USA... employees are

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00:53:48

Litopia After Dark 014 - The Hooker Prize

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2009/05/09

Litopia After Dark this week is plunging further into the murky depths of the literary world than we have ever been before, as we deliberate the question - Vice: is it any good? We look at the sin of shoplifting books, the evil-doing of downloading e-books and the depravity of failing to return library books. And as we plummet, the panel discuss literally pitching your work and the wrath that may result... the sloth of Thesaurus use... the lust of the madam memoir. By the time we've settled at the

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01:06:22

Litopia After Dark 013 - The Future of the Book

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2009/05/09

LITOPIA AFTER DARK this week takes a fascinating direction as we discuss one of the biggest and most important questions facing writers and publishers today - how will books be sold in the future? Also, The Litopia Effect - how our discussions are influencing the world of literature as yet another story of fake memoirs hits the headlines. Plus we are all, literally, stereotypes... Jacqueline Wilson publicly disapproves of herself... and writers - mad, bad and dangerous in power? To discuss these

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00:59:28

Litopia After Dark 012 - Touching The Monkey

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2009/05/09

This week’s LITOPIA AFTER DARK recklessly plunges into the wild and wacky world of the WOTY (listen to the show to find out!) during which we learn more than we ever thought we’d want to know about micro-groms, man-flu, smirting and whaletails –to name but a few. We also look at the latest developments in the lawsuit brought by JK Rowling and Warner bros against the author of publisher of the unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia... ask what future is there for publishing trade magazines... ponder

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01:00:04

Litopia After Dark 011 - Writers are All Thieves

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2009/05/09

Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what's new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. We can be found live on Ustream at 8pm (GMT) on Friday evenings and there's an opportunity watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme. This week the panel discuss the dark and ugly face of writing. No, not Jeffrey Archer, but plagiarism. We're naming and shaming the cheats of the writing world and asking why would they

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01:09:32

Litopia After Dark 010 - Inalienable Underpants

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2009/05/09

Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. We can be found live on Ustream at 8pm (GMT) on Friday evenings and there’s an opportunity watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme. Joining Peter Cox this week are Donna Ballman, Beverly Gray and Dave Bartram and special guest Carolyn Soutar. In this week’s show the panellists share their views on a multitude of news

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00:54:20

Litopia After Dark 009 - Why Do We Do It?

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2009/05/09

Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. Again, we can be found live on Ustream at 8pm (GMT) on Friday evenings and there’s an opportunity watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme. Panellists this week are Dave Bartram, Beverly Gray, Donna Ballman and Eve Harvey. The show this week is an introspective. The panel examine their own reasons for entering the

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00:54:16

Litopia After Dark 008 - Enantiodromia

Litopia After Dark 1 - 25 ·

2009/05/09

Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. We can be found live on Ustream at 8pm (GMT) on Friday evenings and there’s an opportunity watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme. Today’s show is called Enantiodromia – (Greek: enantios, opposite + dromos, running course) is a concept introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung meaning the superabundance of any force

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00:53:14

Litopia After Dark 007 - Mummy Took My Fingers!

Litopia After Dark 1 - 25 ·

2009/05/09

Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. Again, we can be found live on UStream at 8pm (GMT) on Friday evenings and there’s an opportunity to watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme. In this week’s packed show we will be discussing Literary Prizes. How do the panel feel about the system of Prizes? AL Kennedy has just been awarded the Costa Prize and yet the

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00:57:20

Litopia After Dark 006 - Shrooms

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2009/05/09

In this second programme of 2008 we are again live on Ustream and the chat room is open for comments during the recording of the Podcast. This week the panel discuss the rather depressing news that further cuts are being made to funding for the Arts. The British Council has effectively been dismantled, its 20 specialist officers (including the much-respected Susie Nicklin, Head of Literature) have been made redundant and invited to re-apply for their jobs. Also is POD (Print on Demand) the future

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