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Oct.13.2008
One thing about this new collection of mine is that it’s a bargain. That’s right. Even the $50 limited edition or the $150 lettered edition. The reason, to me, is simple. The cost of your average limited edition novella - a very short book - is currently running around $45-$60 from most...
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Oct.13.2008
PROLOGUE
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"Even though we face the
difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a
dream. I have a dream that
my four little children will
one day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the
content of their character."
Martin...
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Oct.10.2008
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Oct.04.2008
Issue Four of the Colored Chalk zine has hit the virtual bookshelves. I swear, this thing just keeps getting better. And I don't say that as an ego stroke considering I am a co-editor. The proof: I had absolutely nothing to do with this issue.
This issue contains some fantastic stories by Charles...
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Oct.04.2008
In my post, “I Could Write a Great Novel If Only I Had a Story to Tell,” I neglected my own favorite kind of plot trigger: secrets. It’s funny, but writers do seem to revisit a certain theme. Michelle Richmond (at least in her last two gripping books) seems to write about the consequences of losing...
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Oct.01.2008
It's just 53 words, but Jeffrey Whitmore's ``Bedtime Story'' has had an amazing and varied life, but then so has Whitmore _ journalist, editor, cartoonist (``Roka''), novelist and, as Sterling Johnson, prophetic cultural sage (``English as a Second F*cking Language'').
``Bedtime Story'' has...
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Sep.29.2008
I awoke to a terrible screeching sound barreling in my head. I looked out the window and saw a plane about to crash down on my house, but I was rescued in the nick of time by a spy with the former KGB (which he still informs me is alive and kicking). He rushed me outside just as the local police...
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Sep.23.2008
I'm playing with some book proposals. Okay, I've really been working in earnest but "playing" seems like a better term for things that may never see the light of day. I'm not sure if this is just the usual insecurity between books or if it's the market. One of the books, I might add, has...
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Sep.18.2008
I get this question a lot. It's great that people are anxiously awaiting my next novel, but it puts a kind of pressure on me too. Or at least I let it put pressure on me. The thing about historical fiction is that there's a LOT of research to be done before an author can even type the first word....
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Sep.16.2008
They say that the most common question asked of authors is, "Where do you get your ideas?" But sitting next to a fellow nonfiction author today, I realized that there's one question I've heard more than any other. The question in question: "How long did it take to write this?"...
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