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Oct.03.2010
Catch my guest post on process at Anjuelle Floyd's site, http://anjuellefloyd.com, today. Anjuelle, who is a member of Red Room, is also hosting me at She Writes -- http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blogs/cheryl-snellwhy-do-i-write-and?x...Stop by and heckle me a little, why don't you?
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Sep.19.2010
Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime swerves through the compelling emotional landscape of a particular father and son whose relationship is altered by a motorcycle. That machine is a Vincati, half British Vincent and half Italian Ducati.
The narrative...
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Sep.09.2010
Until September 17, a free download of my novel Rescuing Ranu can be had at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37169186/Rescuing-Ranu
It's about sacrifice, survival, and the mysterious alchemy of love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5N5QDTpZUg has a trailer/ synopsis type thingie.
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Aug.30.2010
I was sitting on the bench by the lake on a sunny day, watching a clump of tiger lilies dip and bend toward the water. They look thirsty, I thought. Just then, a young man on a jog stopped, took off his shoes and stepped into the water. He cupped some of the lake in his hands and cooled himself...
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Aug.26.2010
Anyone got an opinion on ezinearticles as a place to put previously published fiction? One of my stories is featured there today at http://ezinearticles.com/?Satin-Doll&id=4891934It's got Barbie dolls and a harmonica . Oh, why not?
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Aug.22.2010
Four vanes pierced by a spindle, a cotillion in black and white. Moving in atmosphere lighter than air, one searches out the other moving away.
As inside the glass, outside. You move slowly through me, and light bounces from one skin to the other, a kind of feint. Once the light warms the...
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Aug.18.2010
I came across an interesting question from Tayari Jones, asking if writing ever helps us get close to a type of character that we wouldn’t ordinarily understand, let alone empathize with. I’d have to say Yes.
Developing empathy is a transformative act. My character Amma in Shiva’s Arms was...
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Aug.16.2010
The tour is over, and I'm posting highlights on www.shivasarms.blogspot.com and Facebook all day long. For a recap nightcap, please join me for a Twitter party, on Monday, August 16 at 7 p.m. EST. It's the grand finale of the Shiva's Arms Virtual Book Tour!
* Be sure to follow @cherylsnell...
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Jul.27.2010
The book launch for Shiva's Arms rages on. A flame war was narrowly averted yesterday when a giveaway blogger would not publish comments criticizing her review of my novel. Such excitement, all deleted now.
Since even a drunk & disorderly party needs a party favor, I uploaded the back story of...
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Jul.20.2010
I've just completed the first month of my blog tour. Instead of the usual FAQ, today's host, Red Room's Nanette Rayman Rivera, threw me some hardballs. Here they are --
NRR- A critic has said that one important measure of a superior work of literature is its ability to produce in the readers a...
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