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I think most new writers are better off going with traditional publishers who will actually, at a minimum, edit your work, package it well, and market it for you. Ellen Datlow

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Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher. Ellen Datlow

Editing Would Promotion Write Over Ventures Amanda Traditional Been Hand Selling Hugh Prefer Successful Notice Publisher

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.' Ellen Datlow

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I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are. Ellen Datlow

Life People Real Life Out Collector Rarely Know Most Parts Am Real Doll Dolls Either Literature Who Many

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste. Ellen Datlow

Find Some Generally Weird Suppose Course Without Dull Question Lot Taste Move Just Fiction Less Imaginative

Words take on many different meanings. Erin McKean

Words Take Different Meanings Many

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying. Erin McKean

Out Has-Been Bad Since Been Led Dying Aging Figured Ever

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary. Erin McKean

Good Few Ways Very Dictionary Get Publicity

All language is a popularity contest. Erin McKean

Language Contest Popularity Popularity Contest

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. Erin McKean

People Writing Reading How Interested English

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend. Erin McKean

Time Fashion You Word Trend Looking Year Difficult Those Ripped More Pictures Like Look Hindsight Makes Real Years Years Ago Flannel Notice Choose Apparent Jeans Things

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got. Erin McKean

Words Word Believe Every Think Our Would Recycle Demands New Environmentally Like Got New Word Event Conscious

Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen. Erin McKean

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Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Erin McKean

Problem Words Word Easily Clarity Finds Objections Tend Like Annoying Verb Understood Motivated Friend Personal Taste Confusing English Deeply

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too. Erin McKean

Creativity Innovation Language Signs Power Twitter Too Other Entire Ecosystem Sites Just Interact Engine Showing Platform Extend Technological

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet. Erin McKean

Fashion You Police Internet Invitations Limit Show Fashion Show Number

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people. Frederick Lewis Allen

People Complicated Everything More Most Looks Than

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