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May.07.2013
Within our lives we encounter many different people, form serious relationships with some and not with others. Women as the author states often place a great “value,” on their relationships. Men are raised, “ to value independence and self-reliance.” Women are taught when younger that it’s...
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Apr.21.2013
I am currently working on a grown-ups version of Cherry Blossoms for Children – Life Lessons to Grow By entitled Zen Fairy Tales. Below is a short question and answer session one commonly sees on book blog sites to engage readers' interest with authors' newest books and ongoing creativity.
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Apr.18.2013
Children liked Kafka, and he liked them. He was comfortable around children and - I suspect - children looked upon Kafka as a big, kinda odd, kid himself. He doted on his nieces and nephews (one of the few things he had in common with this father). And Kafka was playful, for there was much to enjoy...
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Mar.21.2013
I´m very pleased to report that my new story collection, Mercury Blobs, will be appearing soon, maybe even in the basket of the Easter Bunny as he pops by to add another year to my life. Several people went into the making of this book which I am proud to see done my way.
Some stories were...
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Mar.14.2013
After dinner the other night, a friend who’d recounted the rather impressive incompetence of the powers-that-be at his workplace said that he tried not to think about how messed up things are in the larger world beyond his 9 to 5, because when he got in touch with all that could go wrong, it...
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Feb.19.2013
Short stories have a rich history, of course, and many literary giants — Hemingway, Nabokov, Cheever and Welty, to name a few — have written memorable collections. But they were largely seen as exceptions that prove the rule: publishers and authors tend to be wary of short-story collections...
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Feb.12.2013
by Andrew Lam
Mr. K. brought in the new kid near the end of the semester during what he called oral presentations and everybody else called eighth grade Show and Tell. This is Cao Long Nguyen, he said, and he's from Vietnam and immediately mean old Billy said cool!
What's...
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Dec.26.2012
Litbridge interviewed Kate Gale, Red Hen's publisher, and near the end of the Q&A she mentioned my book, Birds of Paradise Lost, due out in Spring 2013..
What makes Red Hen Press a unique part of the publishing community?
We are the biggest indie press in Los Angeles, so we are occupying a...
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Dec.24.2012
When you are a former believer, Christmas offers a few challenges. I suspect they are very different challenges from the ones experienced by Americans of other faiths—Muslim, Jewish, Hindu—when this massive, inescapable holiday roles around. But they’re enough to inspire quite a few blogs, I...
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Dec.23.2012
Once upon a time, an agent liked a story I wrote and asked if I had a book. I did. He liked the novel, too. He sent it to publishers and one bought it for good money. The agent also sent the manuscript to movie studios. One of those bought it, too, for even more money...
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