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Do You Want an Agent and Publisher? – Chris Longmuir - You’ve finished writing your book. It has an original plot with plenty of twists and turns. It’s well written. It’s a page turner. You’ve put your heart and ...
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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...15 hours 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 ...1 day 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...1 day 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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Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review - Melvyn Bragg's latest novel is an insightful, moving tale of ageing and our helplessness in the face of dementia There's a scene in Derek Cianfrance's *B...1 hour ago
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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.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!23 hours ago
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The Week’s Most Popular Posts: May 11-17, 2013 - Rosenblum: “My niece, upon seeing the first Harry Potter movie asked why Harry and Hermione and Ron always went to the ‘library’ at Hogwarts to look stuff ...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...1 day ago
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Graphic Books Best Sellers: Humans and Mutants Working Together - "Uncanny Avengers" is No. 2 on the hardcover list.1 day 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...1 day 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...3 days ago
