It was a simple 800-word story scribbled on two sides of a postcard, but it helped What’s Your Story? sell out in a day, breaking the record for the fastest-selling short story collection in history.  From BBC:
What’s Your Story? contains 13 postcard-sized tales by authors including Doris Lessing, Nick Hornby and Sebastian Faulks.
More than 10,000 copies [...]

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by Travis
Bathsheba?  Anyone have a brilliant idea about why she chose that name?  And here’s a prediction: the internet is about to be flooded with people wanting “Elvendork” as their new screen name.  Which new patron of the pub will claim the name here first?
John Granger asks about Elvendork, and at Suite101, I write at [...]

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by Dave
Check out this news article from the Chicago Sun-Times. For a charity event, several major UK authors were asked to write something on a card to be auctioned to raise money to help those with dyslexia:
Rowling used both sides of her card to hand-write a prequel to her seven-book Harry Potter saga.
Rowling’s “prequel” [...]

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