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Jun.13.2009
Recvd word today Barnes and Noble will be stocking my novel, Courage of Fear on their national chain bookstore shelves.
This is a big accomplishment. I am very elated.
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Jun.10.2009
Milwaukee Group Seeks Fiery Alternative to Materials Challenge
Life grows more interesting by the day for officials of the West Bend (Wis.) Community Memorial Library. After four months of grappling with an evolving challenge to young-adult materials deemed sexually explicit by area residents Ginny...
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Jun.09.2009
Views, Reviews and Weird News With having to change my radio show from Wednesday to a Tuesday, my Views, Reviews and Weird News blog has moved to a Wednesday. A blog about radio show guests, some of the interviews, book reviews and some weird news from Across the Pond.
VIEWS:
I've had another fun...
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May.31.2009
I used to answer Godzilla's fan mail.
It was my first job, and I wasn't hired to answer Godzilla's fan mail, I just kind of fell into it. I was actually hired as an editorial assistant at a children's books publisher. We published books for the school library market. One of the series was based...
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May.30.2009
Book Promotion on a Budget and "no shows" Today on my book radio show "A BOOK AND A CHAT" my guest did not show. While I'm sure there must be a good reason, I was not as prepared as perhaps I should have been as I did receive confirmation from my guests agent.
So what do you do...
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May.27.2009
Like most authors I am often asked, 'where do you get your ideas from?'' In this new video, which I've just uploaded, I talk about how I got the idea for my fast-paced crime thriller novel, In Cold Daylight. I'm also reading the prologue from In Cold Daylight.
Here is a short blurb about In...
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May.26.2009
“Conversations with Teddy is a unique approach to telling the story of growing up in a dysfunctional family with egregious abuse – through the eyes a small girl who shares her secrets with her beloved teddy bear. Shirley has such a gift for putting her pain into words. This book would be an...
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May.24.2009
Recently, I found myself on the receiving end of a magazine publisher’s wrath. He had accepted my article for publication--paying in copies only--and requested that I sign a release transferring all my rights to the article. I asked him what was the current circulation of his publication, and here...
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May.22.2009
Just a quick appeal to see if there are any UK authors out there, particularly the London area. It would be good to network/swap ideas. Would it be worth starting a club for the Brit Pack?
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May.21.2009
Recently, a concerned reader responded to one of my Facebook status updates where I posed a question wondering if Nancy Pelosi was being used as a distraction by the GOP. I believe the reader was genuine when she expressed a concern that I might be ticking off half of my reading public, even...
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