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Writer's Digest Digital Archive Collection: Heroes of Horror & SuspenseFor nearly 100 years, Writer's Digest magazine has been the leading authority for writers of all genres and career levels. And now, for the first time ever, we've digitized decades of issues from our prestigious archives to share with the world. In this archive collection, discover five full issues from our vault, each of which includes exclusive historic interviews and columns from Stephen King, Anne Rice, Mary Higgins Clark and more. Writer's Digest

For nearly 100 years, Writer's Digest magazine has been the leading authority for writers of all genres and career levels. And now, for the first time ever, we've digitized decades of issues from our prestigious archives to share with the world. In this archive collection, discover five full issues from our vault, each of which includes exclusive historic interviews and columns from Stephen King, Anne Rice, Mary Higgins Clark and more.

Writer's Digest June 1977, Featuring Stephen King
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Stephen King is not only the preeminent master of horror,he's also one of the most prolific and well-known authors of our time. His 54 novels have been adapted across a broad array of media and earned critical acclaim from around the world. In this issue of Writer's Digest, King,then a young author enjoying the early success of Carrie and Salem's Lot,ponders the success of horror and the horrors of success in a feature entitled “Witches and Aspirin."

Other notable stories in this issue include:

  • "Writing for the Martial Arts Market" by Jack Murray
  • "Likes Attract: How to Create Likable Characters in Your Fiction" by Jean Z. Owen
  • "Audiovisual Writing: A Word Beyond Words" by Allan Amenta
    • And more!

Writer's Digest January 1985, Featuring Peter Straub
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Peter Straub is the author of Floating Dragon and Ghost Story, and co-author (with Stephen King) of The Talisman. His horror fiction has earned literary nods including the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award. In the column "Ghost Storyteller," Straub discusses plot, pacing and other fiction techniques.

Other notable stories in this issue include:

  • "Mastering the Short Story" by Paul Darcy Boles
  • "Classified Information" by Dennis E. Hensley scans the classified ads of his local newspaper to find up to 30 salable ideas a day
  • "Chronicle: King of the Road" by Larry L. King
    • And more!

Writer's Digest November 1988, Featuring Anne Rice
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With a broad array of genres in her repertoire, including horror, Christian literature and erotica, Anne Rice is one of the most popular and widely read authors in recent history. However, she earned her title as the "queen of horror" for The Vampire Chronicles, her series that includes the popular Interview with the Vampire. In this full issue of Writer's Digest, discover an interview with Rice in which she explains the sensuality of horror fiction, the meaninglessness of rejections, and the need to believe in yourself.

Other notable stories in this issue include:

  • "Chronicle: How the Hell Did I Write a Book?" by Barry Manilow (yes, that Barry Manilow)
  • "Six Classic Elements of the Bestselling Novel" by Evan Marshall
  • A series of seven games for writers by Doug Donaldson
    • And more!

Writer's Digest January 2003, Featuring Ridley Pearson
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Bestselling author Ridley Pearson is well-known not only for his children's and middle grade adventure books including the Peter and the Star Catchers series, but also dozens of adult suspense and thriller novels including the Risk Agent and Walt Fleming series,and many more standalone novels. In this issue, discover a feature entitled "4 Great Ways to Put Research to Work in Your Novel" in which Pearson discusses the secrets of suspense and making your story believable by merging fact and fiction.

Other notable stories in this issue include:

  • An interview with John Steinbeck's son, Thomas Steinbeck, about publishing in his father's shadow
  • "10 Tabloid Tips to Better Writing" by then-Star magazine editor Peter Riley
  • "10 Writing Rules for Fiction Success" by Raymond Obstfeld
    • And more!

Writer's Digest October 2003, Featuring Mary Higgins Clark
Format: PDF

As if one "royal" writer weren't enough, this issue features "queen of suspense" Mary Higgins Clark, who shares her secrets in this gripping interview. With more than 51 bestselling novels, four of which have been adapted into films, Clark is a gem in the writing world and a paragon of success for authors. Learn how she persevered despite rejection, how she gets her story ideas and the steps along her path to success.

Other notable stories in this issue include:

  • "Know When It's Time to Fire Your Agent" by Cecil Murphey
  • "8 Ways to Heat Up Your Plot" by Thomas B. Sawyer
  • "Find the Perfect Point of View" by Jerry B. Jenkins
    • And more!
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Delivering and managing fully realized applications in the cloud is different. Different approaches to classic engineering problems than traditional On Premise development and different ways of thinking through the problems of "always available" solutions. I've been in the software delivery business a long time, and with the cloud emerging, for good and ill: I understand the problems, but may be just a little set in my ways. I find this book helps me re-frame challenges in a way that aligns with the strengths of cloud computing. Solve the same problems faster, by thinking about them differently. I'm finding "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know" great for re-centering my expectations about Cloud Native development and deployment of assets. I started reading it cover to cover over the Christmas Holiday but now i just pick it up and look for the group of essays about exactly the problem I'm wrestling with. P.S. I'm heartened by the editors commitment to Black Lives Matter and Rule of Law. Mentioned only to balance the concerns from another review.
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have some good contents but too general
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The book covers some good points, but overall, it's too general.
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Why Politics in a Tech Book????
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Well... I'm surprised to see the book blatently calls out its dedication to Black Lives Matter, which is in all caps so I assume it's referring to the political organization. It goes on to speak of 2020 being the year of an "awakening of injustices of systematic racism"... I thought I was buying a technical book??? Had I known this political bs was included I wouldn't have purchased it! However, I bought and I'm still reading it. If the politics goes away and the TECHNICAL content is good I'll update my review.
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Not good use of time
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It’s not clear who this book targets - neither experts nor novice will benefit. There are expert perspectives, only few of these are helpful, rest are too generic to be of any use. For instance the last entry is one an engineer who shares how she went from zero to expert in cloud engineering in six months but fails to mention a single resource or pathway for others to follow.
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Nilendu Misra
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Uneven compendium of tips and insights, but still very useful
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“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not" is why such bottom-up insights and lessons from the field are the fastest way to learn real life stuff. This series had a GREAT start with "Engineering Management" - I guess because it is way more subjective than Cloud Engineering and offered a variety of non-overlapping POVs. This one is a mixed bag, perhaps because "Cloud Engineering" was perceived amorphously by the authors. The scope was broad - from cloud-native (architecture), to cloud-ready (topology), to cloud-operations, to choosing tech (e.g., Lambda/serverless), to -ilities and economics -- it is like celebrating Halloween, Christmas and Labor Day together in a single long weekend. I would give it 4/+ stars if at least 25% of such a book was "superb", giving 3 because about 10% of the book is. That still leaves 10 solid insights or learning that would otherwise take many failures to learn. And failures, especially in this emerging domain of complexity, is VERY expensive. Would love to see more books like this. Let's summarize some key insights - -- Real-time visibility across the entire DevOps lifecycle is key to winning in cloud. -- Operations, especially operations at scale, is extremely hard. So, wherever possible, use Managed Services. -- Distinguish between "availability" and "uptime" and measure each separately, and concretely. -- In FaaS/Serverless, calling a function synchronously increases debugging complexity. -- Good code is like good joke - it needs no explanation. -- "Building your app or platform on top of the abstractions that a cloud provider gives you does not make the underlying layers stop existing. In many cases, it makes them even more important." That makes the failure modes LESS obvious than we were used to. Therefore having "extreme visibility" into your systems will help "separate the issues at the layer you're focused on from the fundamental system issues". i.e., just because what was under the hood is now even less visible, don't forget them. Many recent "cloud failures" have been in networking fault domains. -- Cloud is not optimized for replacing static infrastructures. -- Containers, service meshes and serverless jumpstart dev productivity but they also change the attack surface of apps and infra. -- "Number of containers that are alive for 10 sec or less has doubled to 22%". 73% of all containers live for 30 minutes or less. -- Adopt an "assume breach" stance for everything. Have a break-glass account. -- Ensure you have a thorough understanding of where and how secrets are secured. -- Grey failures (transient degradation of services) are often worse than complete crashes, since the latter have a short feedback loop. -- Resilience engineering has existed as a sub-discipline within safety sciences. We just recently started applying its concepts in technology. Resilience can be thought of as a "socio-technical system" with Robustness ("system X has property Y that is robust in sense Z to perturbation W"); Reliability (consistent operations or service levels); Rebound (ability to deal with a chaotic situation using structures developed AND deployed BEFORE the chaos). In other words, robustness protects systems against a SPECIFIC type of failure mode. When a system is robust in many dimensions, it approaches good resilience to failure. -- Resilience is something you "do", not something you "have". Resilience is a verb. -- Moving from one class of nines to the next is 10 times more expensive. -- Production System really means "system that someone else, anyone else, can hold you accountable for". -- Most common theme across incidents is that something, somewhere was surprising. -- Incidents are unplanned investments...your challenge is to maximize ROI. -- We used to think of scale in two dimensions - horizontal (more) and vertical (bigger). In cloud, think of "scale out" (when demands increase) and "scale in" (when demand decreases). -- Architecture diagram is also a map of failure modes. -- Async communication is a friend of Cloud Reliability. -- Test in production is a competitive advantage. The complexity of traffic patterns going through high-scale production systems is increasingly harder to reproduce in a controlled env. -- Hundreds of open issues is fine, but if the repo has gone months (or, years!) without a release, THAT is a warning sign. -- It is hard to write good tests for bad code. -- Platforms come and go. But first principles and patterns will always exist, because they are the ones and zeros.
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