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Feb.04.2013
I speak at schools all over the country -- and every now and then, I visit a school in my own backyard.
Monterey Hills Elementary is not too far from my house . . .
The school was celebrating their Young Author's Week, and since I'm a young author, I was invited to speak!...
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Feb.01.2013
I certainly hope that some of my books will have the impact and longevity of Pride and Prejudice. But then, perhaps books on the internet will last forever. They won't have the weight and heft of these, however. [DE]
Jane Austen as pictured in the portrait discovered by Dr Paula...
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Jan.31.2013
Millie looked at the screen in the front of her couch and it read, “When ready to return home, please press the red button.”
She asked, “Is everyone ready to go home?”
Tired little voices from the couches behind her agreed that they were ready to go home. Jasmine said, “I just wish that it wasn’t...
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Jan.31.2013
“All my novels belong to the one category—intended to be, as it were, serious entertainment.” —Anthony Burgess
Yesterday I re-tweeted this quote, and also posted it to Face Book. Today I read that Hilary Mantel might be "middlebrow", apparently for her success in the Kindle age....
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Jan.29.2013
Stephen King has removed an earlier book of his, Rage, from circulation because it was cited after some school shootings. I have often pondered how much a work of fiction (or a movie, or TV drama or some such) can influence other people, particularly in a negative way. An author's intentions are...
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Jan.29.2013
This month's abbreviated magazine week showcase begins here:
The Atlantic, January/February 2013
Sometimes New Years’ resolutions really amount to something more than good intentions and, given that The Atlantic actualizes such intentions at the start of 2013, this issue gladdens me. It...
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Jan.29.2013
The fourth in the DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime series, Dead Man's Wharf, is to be published in China within the next couple of weeks by Nanhai Publishing Company of Haikou.
Nanhai Publishing bought translation rights to six novels in the DI Horton series published in the UK, Commonwealth...
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Jan.28.2013
My concern is that an accumulation of facts about a book or an author makes one think they know what book and author are about. It is but a rake skimming across a pond. You'll find some interesting things but your knowledge of what lies beneath is opaque. [DE]
Insu Lee...
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Jan.28.2013
“After leaving your show, I noticed only beauty.”
--comment in the guest book for “Layers of Being” (Estratos del Ser)
One of the highest purposes of art-making – perhaps its most essential – is to inspire viewers to...
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Jan.25.2013
Thanks to Public Radio, , Rebecca Kruth, Becky Anderson, and all the great people at Anderson’s Bookshop. Here’s the piece!
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