The Heroes Journey by Mark Chisnell
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I’ve been a fan of the
thriller in all its forms since my Dad took me to see Diamonds are Forever at the local Odeon cinema. I subsequently
inhaled the colle...
Strengthening My Chi to Heal My Eyesight
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I had a meltdown in Dr. Yu’s office last week. I was exhausted and stressed
trying to meet a production deadline for the teen writing and publishing
progra...
New Website
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With my website long overdue for a freshening, I've opted for a total
overhaul, an easy-to-navigate spot where a visitor can find out about my
books, read ...
Art & a little mystery in the garden
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Me & Felder Rushing's Classic Truck Garden on Wheels!
Yesterday, I was honored to be included among other artists at the annual
Art in the Garden event h...
Charles Ramsey, truth-teller
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My take on the viral phenomenon of Charles Ramsey, who helped to rescue the
women in Cleveland: THAT DIDN’T take long. Within hours of rescuing three
women...
Join me for lunch!
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I'm so happy to share this exciting news with you!! Me and four of my
author friends have come together as the YaYa Writer Girls! We're holding a
lunc...
WB Yeats And His Family Have Lunch
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Here’s a sneak peak of the book I’m working on now, The Pilgrim Soul. It’s
the first in a trilogy about love and loss, based around the lives of the
poet,...
Belated Dance Salad Foodiness
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Let me preface this by saying that I was pretty darn disappointed that
Pronk didn't do his solo, but I'm very glad that he was able to recover
from his inj...
"What Are You Afraid Of?"
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A story from American Stories NOW is now available at your magazine stand!
Check out the May 2013 issue of Reader's Digest!
(and yes that's me wa...
ASSET-STRIPPING CINEMA FOR LESSONS IN NARRATIVE
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Having recently watched Roman Polanski’s 1976 psychological thriller, The
Tenant, for the first time, I was struck once again by the degree to which
films ...
A Publishing Fairy Tale
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In the beginning there were only storytellers and those who made up their
audiences. Then the storytellers learned to write and the audiences learned
to ...
Hope Store Advances in Contest
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Okay, this news is a little late. But on February 13, 2013 -- I learned
that my novel THE HOPE STORE advanced in the Amazon contest. 10,000 novels
were...
The Resurrection of Dinah McCall
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If you’re new to my work, you won’t know who Dinah McCall was. If you’ve
been reading me for a while, then you do. So, FYI… Dinah McCall is my pen
name, an...
I Am Pollack, I Write Many Books
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Hello, everyone, new and old and in between. This is my somewhat antiquated personal website, due for a revamp at any moment. In the meantime, though, I want...
Along Publishers Row
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by Campbell Geeslin Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll and Ernest Hemingway did
their writing standing up, with a tall piece of furniture serving as a
desk. Now...
They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: May 21 and 28, 2013
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Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles
we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. We’ll be taking a little break
next week,...
Love Rocks: A Wicked Read
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*Love Rocks is a monthly look at new self-published romance titles from the
community of writers at Rock*ItReads.*
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Are you a reader who commit...
Scandal Befalls McGruff the Crime Dog by Jory John
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Ahem. Testing. One two. Woof. Is this thing on? Yes? Hello. Thank you for
coming out today. My name is McGruff Thomas-Clegg, but you probably know me
bet...
Great Gatsby Read-Alikes
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Have you seen the new Gatsby movie yet? Are you planning to? If so, you may
want to be like a lot of RVC library cardholders and read F. Sco...
Bless you all
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by Pari
*Oh, so many thoughts, so many ideas. I wanted this to be a profound last
post. Instead, let me tell you a little story:*
Last week I had an ear...
