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Mar.01.2009
I am currently suffering the after-effects of a Devonian hallucinogenic initiation rite in which I recently partook - all in the name of diplomacy, you understand - I wouldn't want to set number two back on his course of ecstasy-bingeing again - not after that unfortunate incident with the Eluvian...
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Feb.26.2009
Before Slumdog Millionaire, before the weekly Lottery, before overnight fame came from being discovered on YouTube, there was hope fueled by imagination sitting around the coffee table late at night. My Mom met her best friend when we shared space at a local motel in the heart of Silicon Valley-...
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Feb.20.2009
Hi all,
I just started a new promo blog for authors where a doggy interviews authors' pets. In other words, your pet will talk about you and your book, from its 'unique' perspective.
I was wondering if any of you would like to be one of my first, er, victims... :-)
There will only be five...
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Feb.17.2009
The first of a selection of poems by Benjamin Arnold Guppy, recently discovered buried in a biscuit tin in the back garden of Floss Littleworth. To be auctioned at Sotheby's soon.
'Do Not Refuse Me'
I knew the moment that we met,At the church hall jumble sale,That I had to have you for my own,...
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Feb.16.2009
It's true--we put an ocean between us and the Cossacks, keep our feet on city sidewalks now. But I am going to a retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains for two weeks, to a historic home recommended by my friend Katherine Smith. It's a real retreat, no cell phones, internet or TV. I'm already...
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Feb.16.2009
All right, this does it-- I'm establishing a writers' and artists' colony in Baha California, before the nanny-state buzzkillers take over the rest of the U.S....
Don't these guys realize they're stifling the creativity needed to craft the Great American Novel??!!
--Earl Merkel...
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Feb.15.2009
My heart's forever
yours, Miss Burke, let me count the
ways you bridge that fault,
deep-riv'n below your
feet, with golden eulogy,
Narcissus himself
had no greater joy
in his reflection than mine
in your limpid eye
you exculpate my...
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Feb.13.2009
BROOKLYN, N.Y. , Feb 13...The economic crisis is being prolonged by faulty terminology that distorts perceptions, dampens expectations and crushes optimism, an analyst charged today.
"Our nomenclature is counter-productive," said Efraim Durg, founder and CEO of NeuroBrands, a marketing...
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Feb.13.2009
It is the stuff of nightmares. Hear the shabby shuffle of their soft somnambulant stutter and your skin begins to crawl. To see their haunted hollow eyes on the cable news shows taking no notice of their surroundings is a spiral straight into terror. The worst part is the cries of the children as...
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Feb.13.2009
The first thing you need to do, if you really don't want to sell your book, is to sign up for every social networking site on the Internet and, if your book is about Haddock fishing, for example, befriend everyone you can find who reads historical fiction. Once they have accepted your friend...
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