{"id":15566,"date":"2009-08-12T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2009\/08\/12\/book-review\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:43","slug":"book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2009\/08\/12\/book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are forever telling me &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to read this book!&#8221;, but my stack of to-reads is already overwhelming, so I wouldn&#8217;t say this to anyone if I didn&#8217;t absolutely mean it, but if you&#8217;re at all involved with writing or publishing&#8230; you&#8217;ve got to read this book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=%22how%20I%20became%20a%20famous%20novelist%22%20steve%20hely\" title=\"Google results for this book\"><em>How I Became a Famous Novelist<\/em><\/a>, by Steve Hely. You will wet yourself. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a guy who works as a copywriter and discovers that his ex-girlfriend from college is getting married. He wants to show her up, but he&#8217;s a nothing, so he decides to become a famous novelist by writing a perfect con-job of a novel, reverse-engineering the bestsellers so he&#8217;s guaranteed to get rich. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hely sets every last clump of publishing world horsesh*t on fire. He parodies every type of fiction going, and it&#8217;s note-perfect. but in the end, he surprised me by transcending it all to tell a story that isn&#8217;t just a collection of snark, but has a heart, too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<br class=\"final-break\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1115\/book-review0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are forever telling me &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to read this book!&#8221;, but my stack of to-reads is already overwhelming, so I wouldn&#8217;t say this to anyone if I didn&#8217;t absolutely mean it, but if you&#8217;re at all involved with writing or publishing&#8230; you&#8217;ve got to read this book: How I Became a Famous Novelist, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}