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My Top Three Writing Quotes (part one) - Joint Post - Karen Bush - visit website I make no apology for offering all three of my top writing quotes from a single source: Terry Pratchett, who is, quite simply, a ...7 hours ago
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Strengthening My Chi to Heal My Eyesight - 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...1 day ago
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New Website - 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 ...2 days ago
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When to trust the reader’s intuition – and when to spell out what a character feels: post at KM Weiland’s Wordplay - Readers don’t have to be told everything. Sometimes they will intuit how a character feels about a plot development or another character. Or they know what...2 days ago
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How Dan Brown Does what Others Can’t (or are not allowed to do). - Less than a week after its publication, Dan Brown’s latest oeuvre is already a huge bestseller. It has, of course, attracted a lot of attention and an awfu...3 days ago
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Art & a little mystery in the garden - 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...1 week ago
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Charles Ramsey, truth-teller - 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...1 week ago
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Join me for lunch! - 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...1 week ago
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WB Yeats And His Family Have Lunch - 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,...2 weeks ago
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Relentless Protector News! - Relentless Protector is a finalist in the National Reader’s Choice Awards for Series Adventure/Romantic Suspense!2 weeks ago
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Belated Dance Salad Foodiness - 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...4 weeks ago
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"What Are You Afraid Of?" - 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...5 weeks ago
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ASSET-STRIPPING CINEMA FOR LESSONS IN NARRATIVE - 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 ...1 month ago
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A Publishing Fairy Tale - 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 ...2 months ago
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Hope Store Advances in Contest - 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...2 months ago
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The Resurrection of Dinah McCall - 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...7 months ago
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I Am Pollack, I Write Many Books - 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...8 months ago
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Two SFWA Presidents - One is near the end of his term! One’s term has yet to begin! Can you guess which is which? Photo by Catherine Shaffer.42 minutes ago
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Case Histories; Australia With Simon Reeve – TV review - It's a nice mix of bleak and jolly – but there's just too much of Kate Atkinson's novel to cram in OK, so I can be a bit thick when it comes to knowing w...59 minutes ago
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Can You Guess These Famous Literary Settings? - A couple of weeks ago, I challenged you to guess some famous characters by their physical descriptions. Well, we’re back with a similar challenge. This tim...20 hours ago
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You’re Welcome! - by Christie Connolley For your viewing pleasure until we are back with fresh content on Monday morning, I present baritone Daniel Teadt. You’re welcome!1 day ago
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Two Timely Questions: How do you Write the Digital Life? Are the Genre Wars Over? - It’s not just business models that are evolving. From the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper website today come two thoughtful pieces on changes in the creative cha...2 days ago
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Graphic Books Best Sellers: Humans and Mutants Working Together - "Uncanny Avengers" is No. 2 on the hardcover list.2 days ago
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Free Fridays: Sanctus by Simon Toyne & Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond App - "Hard to think of it as a debut, better to think of it as the beginning of a massive new adventure.” -*The Daily Mirror (UK)* * * Today’s Free Friday...2 days ago
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Literary Couchsurfing References by Jason Edward Harrington - Thomas Sawyer *Missouri* *Reference:* H. Finn *Experience:* Neutral Hain’t unlikely you remember me from a previous reference, in which I vouched for a M...2 days ago
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Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling Critique the Press - "There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press." *Brain Pickings takes...2 days ago
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Recommended Reads for Spring 2013 - Publisher's Weekly, a professional journal for libraries, has listed some of their picks of highly anticipated books for Spring 2013. Based on their revi...4 days ago
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Alliance of Independent Authors Member News. Bulletin #19 - Every Wednesday ALLi will tell the world about our members' latest book launches, news, awards, freebies, workshops and updates on the writing life -- our ...4 days ago
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When LifeNPublishing has kind of been failing of late - [image: image] Hey guys, I owe you an apology. I know I’ve been pretty lame about updating these past few weeks. There are a number of reasons: 1) I don...5 days ago
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Bless you all - 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...2 weeks ago
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Learn the benefits of Hacking Your Education on The Today Show - Hacking Your Education - on sale March 5th! Dale Stephens, author of Hacking Your Education, appeared on The Today Show to discuss his new book. Watch the in...2 months ago
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