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photo credit: aslinthDinner 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).

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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.

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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.

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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!

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