Posts Tagged ‘Press’
Terroryaki! in the Seattle Weekly
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Jennifer K. Chung
The Seattle Weekly has given a nod to our upcoming latest release, Terroryaki! by Jennifer K. Chung. Reviewer Erika Hobart says the book is engaging, “as creepy as it is playful,” and “an easy read about family and food.” Read the whole review here… and if you’re in the Seattle area, make sure to come to our launch and 3DN Q&A event at the Elliott Bay Book Company this Sunday.
3-day novel writing in history
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Illustration by Jonathan Adams
In the seven (!) years we’ve run the 3-Day Novel Contest (and over the many years we watched its magic before that) we’ve had the pleasure of seeing many take on the challenge in public: the two teams of 12 who undertook the contest along with regular challenges and general harassment for reality TV; a mother-daughter team who wrote in the lobby of their local arts centre; and, most recently, Don Britt, who is breaking out of the Labour Day tradition to write 24 complete 3-day novels in a single year—the last one at a Chapters in Edmonton. So it was interesting to read in the New York Times about Georges Simenon, a Parisian author who in 1927 said he would write a novel in 72 hours while suspended in a glass cage outside the Moulin Rouge. Says the Times:
“Members of the public would be invited to choose the novel’s characters, subject matter and title, while Simenon hammered out the pages on a typewriter. A newspaper advertisement promised the result would be ‘a record novel: record speed, record endurance and, dare we add, record talent!’ It was a marketing coup. As Pierre Assouline notes in Simenon: A Biography, journalists in Paris ‘talked of nothing else.’” [Full article]
Though Simenon was offered 100,000 francs for the event—and he pocketed 25,000 of that—he never went through with it. It was a publicity stunt, and since simply talking about it achieved the desired effect, he didn’t need to follow through. Too bad for him, we say… as anyone who has truly thrown themselves into the contest will attest, it is a remarkable creative experience, whether you do it in a glass box in Paris or alone your room.
So why will you take on the challenge? For the bragging rights? For the creative juice? Or just because it’s there? Whatever your motivation, we hope you’re ready for the next round. We’re madly working at launching this year’s marathon, which will take place September 3-5, 2011. Check back near the end of May for all the registration details!
Jennifer K. Chung on “the New Bacon”
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Terroryaki!
Jennifer K. Chung has told us that the inspiration for her prize-taking novel, Terroryaki! was the ubiquitous dishes of chicken teriyaki on every street in Seattle. She calls it the unspoken official dish of the city, like bagels to Montreal or pizza to New York–except “no one ever talks about it.” In a recent interview with the Bellevue Reporter, Chung says that in the Pacific Northwest, chicken teriyaki is “the new bacon.” Read the whole interview here, and look for her spooky story of sisterhood, families, interracial love and haunted take-out food in bookstores this summer.
“The deformed left foot of the literary world”
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Original 3-Dayer?
Jake Wallis Simons, an entrant in the 33rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest and the author of The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew, has written an account of his creative ordeal for the London Times. Read about his highs, his lows, and his efforts to become a 72-hour “amanuensis for the unconscious” at the Times website or, if you aren’t a paying subscriber of the Times, on Simon’s blog. He also photodocumented the many moods of 3DN, which you can find on his main site.
3DN in WE and the Epoch Times
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
WE cover photo
Two great articles and interviews with past and current entrants showed up in today’s urban weeklies. Steven Schelling of WE in Vancouver profiles a newbie, a veteran and a past winner in this week’s issue, and the Epoch Times interviews Mark Sedore about his winning novel, Snowmen (which launches tonight in Toronto!).
Advance review for Snowmen
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010A nice advance review has come out just in time to greet the release of our most recent 3-Day Book, Snowmen by Mark Sedore. Uptown Magazine, the Winnipeg arts weekly, calls Snowmen “gripping and satisfying” and “a fast-paced read.” (It was a fast-paced write, too.) Read the whole review here, then order your own copy or ask for it at your favourite library or bookstore.
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