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Mar.11.2013
My lucky table at The Beanery wouldn't be easy to identify in a line up. It looks like all the other tables, non-descript modern blonde 'wood' that's half again my laptop's width. The lucky table's critical difference is in location. Up on the stage, in the corner, my back is...
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Jun.30.2012
Love my Beanery. Most of the counter people know me. We flirt and chat. Sam looks rumpled and acknowledges he's still in waking up mood. I tease young Savannah by calling her ma'am. She threatens to leap the counter and beat me with my mug.
90s alt rock cascades over me. A tornado path is more...
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Mar.05.2012
As many readers know the Horton series is set primarily in Portsmouth, England but Horton's investigations often take him out into the Solent and to the Isle of Wight. Here are some photographs of the places that are featured in the crime novel, A Killing Coast by Pauline Rowson. In A Killing...
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Jan.11.2012
I am a huge fan of thrillers. I am particularly drawn to short thrillers of the Twilight Zone type. In fact, I believe that is where my love of thrillers began and I still watch the Twilight Zone TV series whenever I can. Today’s books and movies are lengthy, and while I enjoy them, I don’t have...
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Apr.20.2011
By ANASTASIA ASHMAN
What comes after cultural disenfranchisement? After Expat Harem, the book? After expat+HAREM, the community site? I chart the evolution of my own global niche, along with expat+HAREM's spin-off project: Globalniche.net.
When I moved to Turkey in 2003, the plan was to write a...
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Apr.11.2011
I sit in the space, on a boulder, hidden. The sound of the water flowing from a pipe into the pond is like a gurgle. I like it, it is said this is akin to the sound of the womb, that is why we humans like to be near the sound, near water. The goldfish , large and orange and gold, had been spotted...
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Jul.07.2010
The Tugendhat Villa, photo
Simon Mawer talks about The Glass Room
One of the most acclaimed books to be published in the last couple of years is the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Glass Room, by the British writer, Simon Mawer. It is a book with more than a passing relevance to...
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May.07.2010
Recently LocationIndependentProfessionals.com asked why we want to be location independent. "Whatever you're looking for you can find where you are." It's simply not true.
We can get what we want and need where we are -- but not with a local solution. Try a psychic one.
Take this week's...
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Mar.19.2010
This is the first time I have done an interview for my Writing&Place series with someone I have actually met in the real world! I met Wena Poon, who was born in Singapore and now lives in the US, at the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival in 2008 - what a great week that...
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Feb.20.2010
I am delighted to welcome Jenn Ashworth to my blog! Jenn is a full-time writer and freelance literature development worker who blogs at Every Day I Lie a Little. She is the author of the novel A Kind of Intimacy, wonderfully described by Jenny Diski as "an intense and intriguing novel...
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