MetaTalk

As far as I can remember, the Asker was an author/writer/journalist type who was wanting feedback on whether or not their site was working from a design perspective. One of the responses was an example of three different links that showed how other individual authors presented their work on their personal site and outlined the design elements that made these websites so good. There may have been mild critiques on what the OP could do to tweak their layout. The post was fairly recent, as in less than a year ago. I just can't find it!
posted by Jubey on Feb 19, 2019 - 4 comments

Our very own headspace has a new book out that was #1 in the Teen & Young Adult Gay & Lesbian Fiction category on Amazon. [more inside]
posted by pjern on Feb 27, 2018 - 30 comments

If you read the short story Cat Person in the New Yorker and the NYT interview with author Kristen Roupenian, maybe you wondered what other MeFites thought of it, because it seemed to be right up Metafilter's alley. So did the author. Congratulations to MeFi's Own Sock Person Cat Puppet, who has great taste in sockpuppet usernames, among many other things.
posted by RedOrGreen on Dec 11, 2017 - 30 comments

Mefi's very own headspace is featured in Time for kids online at http://www.timeforkids.com/news/women-warriors/567936. Congrats!

Full disclosure: I'm her stepfather.
posted by pjern on Mar 2, 2017 - 18 comments

The wife of a reclusive author has appeared in a thread about him.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants on Feb 9, 2013 - 85 comments

AssassinPrincess shows up to answer questions about being a professional princess.
posted by plinth on Sep 4, 2012 - 19 comments

Is there a way to sort my favorites by author, or to get a tabulation of quantity by author? [more inside]
posted by etc. on Aug 4, 2012 - 13 comments

David Graeber shows up to comment on a post discussing his work. [more inside]
posted by valkyryn on Aug 29, 2011 - 210 comments

Scifi novelist and screenwriter Steven Barnes has joined an interesting discussion about one of his articles.
posted by zarq on Jun 8, 2011 - 32 comments

Is there a way to search my favorites for comments I have favorited by a specific user? [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Apr 27, 2011 - 47 comments

Congratulations to metafilter's own changeling, whose debut young adult novel, Like Mandarin, was released today! [more inside]
posted by PhoBWanKenobi on Mar 8, 2011 - 42 comments

MeFites can post their music to MetaFilter Music and be critiqued. I would love it if the same could be done for prose and poetry. [more inside]
posted by swimming naked when the tide goes out on Sep 2, 2010 - 59 comments

MeFi'ers on Goodreads unite [more inside]
posted by reenum on May 16, 2010 - 52 comments

Update to this thread on the arrest of Peter Watts. [more inside]
posted by Drastic on Apr 27, 2010 - 52 comments

Congratulations to MeFi's own Interrobang, whose first book for young readers, The Secret of Invisibility, was just published! He is both author and illustrator - preview the illustrations here. [more inside]
posted by Miko on Dec 3, 2009 - 65 comments

Metafilter's own soulbarn recently had his new book on bananas favorably reviewed at Salon. I look forward to reading it.
posted by TedW on Apr 21, 2008 - 39 comments

I would like to read books by more MeFi writers. I have therefore made a list of who they are and their books. [more inside]
posted by paduasoy on Feb 23, 2008 - 101 comments

If you've given up on that long Corporal Sanchez thread, it suddenly gets interesting at this point, when the author of the website that's the subject of the post joins MetaFilter and the discussion.
posted by Kirth Gerson on May 5, 2007 - 34 comments

"This story got the largest and most global response of anything I have ever written, for any publication." -- The author of the septuple-posted "Pearls Before Breakfast" article explains himself.
posted by empath on Apr 15, 2007 - 5 comments

Interesting blog indeed. Looks like a scammer decided to stop by and defend his scam.
posted by allen.spaulding on Mar 12, 2006 - 41 comments

Er-
I certainly appreciate the thought, and the enthusiasm, but when the time comes I'll buy a text ad like anyone else. I don't think of Metafilter as my personal billboard.
Matt, please kill the thread, or move it back here to "metafilter-related", as that's about as close to relevant to this site as my book is.
posted by dong_resin on May 12, 2004 - 50 comments

I'm sorry if this is a stupid, self-indulgent post (so no problems if it's deleted forthwith) but it's based on over two years of reading MetaFilter almost completely. It certainly seems interesting to me - but I may be wrong. See? I've noticed several users becoming ever more adept at expressing themselves: from more drawn-out to pithier; from abstruser to clearer; from all-over-the-place to more-to-the-point. Does anyone else find, by merely participating here and being exposed to MeFi's notoriously severe critique, that they're writing better than when they first joined? Specially foreigners (or non-Americans) like me? To what an extent is MeFi interaction good practice for writers?
posted by MiguelCardoso on Oct 29, 2003 - 57 comments

This thread makes it apparent that there a lot of creative writers in the mefite community. Perhaps a place, similar to Mefi Music, for users to post their short stories, plays, and poems?
posted by adrober on May 25, 2003 - 39 comments

Douglas Rushkoff contributed to this thread about his new online novel. The thread is slipping down the page rapidly, so I thought I'd post a message here to bring attention to it.
posted by waxpancake on Jul 9, 2001 - 3 comments

As I don't have a forum for myself anymore, I thought I'd throw an obscure post into metafilter to see if anyone bites.

As you may or may not know, I've started an novel online... now, I was wondering what the interest would be in setting up a system where anyone could create an account and their own books (main advantage being ability to get instant feedback and edit anywhere). I've already set up a CMS with full CM pages. But if I made it public, would people come? It's not quite a journal, not a blog, and while some of the features are similar, there's different stuff behind this.

What do people think?
posted by Neale on Feb 28, 2001 - 7 comments