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Ingrid Ricks: Determined to See

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...
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Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?

Falling In Love (All Over) Again by Catherine Czerkawska - San Sebastian, La Gomera I'm working on a new version of an old back-list novel. I began by thinking it would involve typing up the manuscript, revising as ...
21 hours ago
Boxing the Octopus

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 ...
21 hours ago
Roz Morris: Nail Your Novel

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...
1 day ago
Susanne O'Leary

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...
2 days ago
barbara taylor sissel

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...
6 days ago
Joanna Weiss

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
Melissa Foster

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
Orna Ross: Go Creative!

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,...
1 week ago
The Girl With the Shakespeare Tattoo

Theme Song du Jour: Bjork "All is Full of Love" -
3 weeks ago
The Ipsum Laureate

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
Mylène Dressler: American Stories NOW

"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
John A. A. Logan

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
Andrew Crofts

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 ...
1 month ago
Dwight Okita: Long Day's Journey Into Dwight

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
Tom Bradley's blog | Reality Sandwich

E-Books and the Night of Brahma - read more
4 months ago
Sharon Sala

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
Neal Pollack

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
Linda Gillard

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Guardian: Books

Garry Winogrand's classic and unseen photographs – gallery - Garry Winogrand is seen by many as the father of American street photography. His output was so prolific, he left many images unseen in his lifetime, on ...
39 minutes ago
John Scalzi: Whatever

A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Me and Jay Lake at the Nebula Mass Signing yesterday. I taste of executive power. For another few weeks, anyway. Picture borrowed from jay’s site, here.
5 hours ago
Operagasm

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!
7 hours ago
The Authors Guild

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...
1 day ago
BOOK RIOT

The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #2: Pillow Talk with Robert Langdon - The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #2: Pillow Talk with Robert Langdon Jeff and Rebecca talk about The Great Gatsby movie reactions and box office, along wit...
1 day ago
NYT ArtsBeat: Books

Graphic Books Best Sellers: Humans and Mutants Working Together - "Uncanny Avengers" is No. 2 on the hardcover list.
1 day ago
B&N NOOK Blog

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...
1 day ago
McSweeney’s

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...
1 day ago
Brain Pickings

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...
1 day ago
Rockville Centre Library

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...
3 days ago
Alliance of Indie Authors

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 ...
3 days ago
Life in Publishing

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...
4 days ago
Murderati

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
Perigee Bookmarks

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
The Nervous Breakdown Book Club

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