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Dec.13.2012
The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, one of my very favorite buildings, is celebrating a landmark birthday these days. It’s the 850th and there’s reason enough to celebrate that it has survived centuries of wars, abuse, neglect, and busloads of tourists. But to me, there’s a key...
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Oct.31.2012
It was All Souls’ eve, and the wind howled along the bleak hill side, whistling drearily through the naked branches of the forest trees, whose last leaves it had long since stripped; the sun had disappeared; a dense and chilling fog spread through the air like the mourning veil of the widowed,...
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Sep.11.2012
What does Mark Carver have to say about Gothic Cathedrals and the Art of Melodrama? As the seeds for The Age of Apollyon were taking root in my imagination, I read Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In addition to being a fantastic story, that book opened my eyes to...
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Aug.06.2012
Interest in Jane Austen has revived these days but, although she was a favorite, I had an enduring fascination with the Bronte's. In my older sister’s bedroom were Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in the woodcut editions. I was fascinated by these illustrations and,...
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May.23.2012
photo: Book cover from the author's website, www.amandastevens.com
So I'm standing in Stop & Shop, where I buy many of my books these days--which is an issue I'll probably take up with my blog--when I saw this book. Quick to judge a book by its cover, literally and...
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May.07.2012
My short story collection, Kiss Shot, is now with my editor. Whew! If you follow the blog regularly, I had originally planned to have the book ready last Christmas. Two of the stories needed more extensive work than I thought and since I am self-publishing Kiss Shot as an eBook, I decided to...
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Feb.27.2012
http://mitziszereto.com/blog/mitzi-teddy-and-kevin-spacey-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil/
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Oct.28.2011
Among the files I rescued from my 20-year-old word processor (now in recycling heaven) were four short stories written in the mid to late 90s. I had submitted one of the stories, How Fanny Got Her House, to literary magazines back in the day with no success. Now that self-publishing eBooks is...
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Sep.22.2011
I started writing WHERE ALL THE DEAD LIE September 14, 2009.
I’d just returned from vacation, and had an unbelievable amount of work on my plate. I was getting ready to shoot the video for the OWN Network, so my thoughts were not exactly on writing as much as what I would wear. I was revising...
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Sep.08.2011
Throughout history, houses of worship have provided many benefits for their communities. They also provide a treasure trove for genealogists. I find historical houses of worship so interesting, I could design a vacation around them. They leave clues in their architecture, their stained glass...
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