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May.24.2013
Today, we have the pleasure of talking with N.Y. Times and USA Today best-selling author Hugh Howey. He is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde Saga and I, Zombie, but is perhaps best known for Wool. Wool introduces readers to the...
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Nov.24.2012
For an update of Stan's big adventure and a great mini-biography, visit the
Helena Independent Record.
http://helenair.com/news/local/western-artist-cartoonist-author-stan-lynde-leaving-montana-for-ecuador/article_fdb2852c-35c5-11e2-a7ac-0019bb2963f4.html
We wish...
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Jul.19.2011
It Takes A Long Time To Grow An Old Friend. (John Leonard.)
I don't live very close to my friends, but this doesn't mean that I am not close to them. I have one friend in particular that I rarely see. It can be a matter of years rather than a matter of days between setting eyes on each other. But...
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Jan.10.2011
Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking
by Tonya Plank
Amanda Hocking is really something of a wunderkind. At only 26 years old, the Minnesota native has written a total of 17 novels. Since self-publishing eight of those books in April 2010, she's sold over 185,000 copies,...
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Aug.05.2010
The summer issue of Broken Pencil is now circulating around the planet. Here are a few samples of what you will find behind its extremely pink and cybernetic cover. Come back on Monday for a few more samples. Then keep coming back each Monday for a few more.
Let's start you off with a...
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Apr.06.2010
-as published in Living Out East and On the Bay http://www.livingouteast.com
Sara Caldwell came to call at our house this morning. She lives here in Palm Heights (elevation 14 feet); around the corner from us in the house with the pink plastic flamingos in front arranged artfully among the...
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Nov.05.2009
I don't have a lot of time, but this week's suggsted topic is near and dear to my heart. I have spent long hours of my life in independent bookstores, browsing shelves, piling and unpiling musty old volumes in search of treasure. That was how I learned to love books - how I cam to collect them. ...
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Jul.25.2009
First of all a confession: of all columnists spouting their views in British mainstream media, I believe Johann Hari to be one of the best. His arguments are well researched and well made. Plus, his liberal (as opposed to left-of-centre) views are refreshing in a world where opinions of everything...
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Jun.25.2009
This is You…This Could Be You….Broken Pencil Summer Sale and Fantasy Party
I interrupt the normal flow of peep info and debate to bring you breaking exciting news from Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. (I’m the publisher and the fiction editor of this amazing...
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May.16.2009
Some really good news about "Cryo Kid - Drawing a New Map" (www.cryokid.com). It's been named Finalist in the Women's Issues category of the Indie Next Generation 2009 Book Awards. I feel truly honored by this recognition for an independently produced book. I suppose it would have been...
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