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Feb.08.2011
For some months now, I've been trying to solicit interest from agents and editors in a historically accurate World War II novel I've written. The novel - at least a third of it - was my master of lib arts project and had many eyes on it during its gestation. Since that time I've gleaned and...
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Feb.01.2011
We've posted here on transmedia before; here's an interesting post on two contrasting transmedia experiences:
A brilliant future for Transmedia Story Telling – use of television, Internet, recorded and interactive media, social media, dedicated applications, but only if corporate free and to...
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Jan.29.2011
The Skype dialer sounds like underwater bells as it digitally fingers the numbers to Maha's phone. As I wait, I see her smiling from a postage stamp sized picture of herself. Usually a basso ring rumbles a few times before i hear her voice and then her picture comes to life and the first thing she...
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Jan.19.2011
There’s an n word I avoid saying. It’s not the one Mark Twain penned in Huckleberry Finn. I don’t have to try to avoid that one. I do try to stop myself from hitting the people who say it. This n word guarantees you’ll make a fool of yourself the minute you put your tongue on the roof of your mouth...
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Jan.14.2011
I am cautious with what I post to the internet - more, I think, so I won't appear stupid or ill-informed. That I am a poor speller is even beyond my abilities to hide. And I imagine most people who read this article will - perhaps - take heed for a few weeks. I do sometimes wonder what Shakespeare...
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Nov.15.2010
As we move into the third week of Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN), we turn our attention to building platform—a built-in readership for your book or any other product you might want to sell. Every aspiring author or businessperson (writers are businesspeople) needs a platform. In fact, an...
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Nov.09.2010
There are days when all is golden and the sky is soft and life is a smooth breath that we inhale without thought to its origins. Yet on this planet we are interconnected now in ways heretofore undreamed of; the pain of one drowned at sea or trapped under the earth is known and felt by all,...
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Oct.17.2010
My friend Esther recently returned from a trip to Tanzania, Africa, where she and a friend had the privilege of watching the Great Migration in the Serengeti. It was the trip of a lifetime as they saw an amazing array of people, scenery and animals –including elephants that woke them in the wee...
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Oct.03.2010
It’s come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCi’s Garden –otherwise what would be the point? To be welcome, guests need not sanitize or in any way alter how they express their reality. The Garden is a place where frank conversation is embraced, emotions respected and affirmed while at the same...
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Sep.26.2010
My husband holds many cherished memories from his preteens through his college years and beyond of accompanying his father on the piano while his father played the violin, one he had played as a boy growing up in Karlsbad, the most famous spa town in what was then Czechoslovakia.
Wolfgang soon...
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