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Jun.24.2008
As of 06/24/08, The Unsuspecting Mage, the first book of my epic fantasy series The Morcyth Saga, has reached the #1 spot for Fantasy eBooks at Mobipocket.com. The saga is seven books long and follows the adventures of a young man who was just looking for a job, but instead finds himself on a world...
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Jun.24.2008
I'm jealous of my time. Most authors feel the same way. Anything that takes away from creating that work-in-progress feeds my nervous tic. Yet the best books in the world never stand a chance without that "P" word getting a workout.
Talking about promotions, guys. Book promotion, self-...
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Jun.22.2008
My good friends over at the Isaac Woofter fan site have been so supportive of my writing. So, I thought it might fun to let them, or you, decide what I'll write next.
I have a published SciFi called Shadows Across the Moon. I have a follow up book to that. I also have an idea for a book based on a...
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Jun.22.2008
I'll talk about the fiction - I maintain a blog called 'Grapes of Wrath' - it is the journal of an Edwardian gentleman (P.P. Oatenshaw) wine critic whose struggles with the twenty first century are related for comical and occasionally satirical effect.
The character came about through a story I...
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Jun.16.2008
Shortly after my book, A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England, came out, I received an advanced reading copy of another book -- An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. Needless to say, I was intrigued. The novel, and it is fiction, is the handiwork of novelist Brock...
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Jun.15.2008
My long-time collaborator Will Jacobs and I are trying something new in our ongoing efforts to call attention to our revived humor writing. We're calling it "Sundays with Will and Gerry" because it sounds sort of corny and appealing and it puts us in mind of the Sunday funnies. Every...
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Jun.12.2008
Just for a bit of inspiration, I dipped into Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer. Battling a cold, I'd taken to my bed with her book, the novel I'm rereading--A Separate Peace--and a new book of writing exercises called, Naming the World, edited by Bret Anthony Johnston.
In an essay on...
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Jun.09.2008
For what else but enchantment is present when a previously designated "runner-up" becomes the winner? This is what has happened for A Genie in the House of Saud: Zubis Rises.
Mystical (note the name; could some unseen force be at work ... or is that because the editor's door is closed?)...
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Jun.06.2008
I woke in the night with a jolt -- literally -- a 3.5 minor earthquake near Alamo, California. As is my geeky-earthquake wont, my young dog still barking and running up and down the stairs, I immediately went to the USGS website to fill out a Did You Feel It report.
But with that jolt came the...
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Jun.04.2008
I I have an author spotlight page on my website www.ashira.ws.
Come by and visit and meet this months Author - Scott Harper
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