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Sep.28.2011
Author William Styron once said, “There’s only one person a writer should pay any attention to. It’s not any damn critic. It’s the reader.”
It’s easy to forget, sitting at your desk for hours and hours and hours every day, just why you ever wanted to write a book in the first place....
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Sep.18.2011
LOOKING FOR MOONCAKES
This year, September 12 (in China) was the (Mid-Autumn) Chinese Moon Festival.
( http://www.chinatravel.com/focus/mid-autumn-festival/ GREAT video! )
Xiaoxuan showed me an internet link early in September, which explained the significance of the Autumn Festival...
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Sep.14.2011
Sting made me love vampires.
Back in the eighties, when I was finishing college, the singer Sting had just released his first solo album, Dream of the Blue Turtles. I'd been a fan of the Police for years and had been heartbroken when they broke up. However, one listen to Sting's solo...
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Sep.05.2011
It's not often I get a chance to plug my book, so please forgive me if I plug mine. Among Women just went live at David Wisehart's Kindle site. Take a look. Much of what goes on in jails has been sensationalized for movies, television, and novels. What really happens is very different. Orleans...
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Sep.03.2011
As I'm sitting here at seven in the morning, still up from last night, I realize how much life changes as you grow older. Twenty years ago, I would have just been coming in from a typical night out. Now, at 40(ish), with two children, a husband, a dog, and a deaf cat, I am up watching...
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Jun.21.2011
It is safe to say that without the support and encouragement of a whole lot of people, my book would not be getting published this year. Close to the top (if not at the very top) of that list is Greg Herren. He was the second person to accept one of my short stories for publication (that it wasn't...
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Jun.06.2011
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Claire DeWitt is said to be the best private detective out there, which is how she comes to find herself striving to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Assistant District Attorney Vic Willing in post-Katrina New Orleans. Hired for the...
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Jun.04.2011
Over at lambdaliterary.org, Carol Rosenfeld has posted a roundup on the Ninth Annual Saints & Sinners Literary Festival held last month in New Orleans. I wrote about this from a personal perspective last month as well, but this article gives a broader range of the events that take place during...
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May.05.2011
Just as I am finished editing Jambalaya Justice, the second in the Crescent City Mystery Series and follow up to Gumbo Justice, I saw on the news that one of the New Orleans police officers originally convicted in relation to a police-Katrina murder has had his conviction overturned and has been...
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