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May.19.2013
You don't need an agent to be published. There are myriads of publishers out there that take un-agented subs and, quite...
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May.19.2013
by Luke James
Except for the peerless blue of the sky the world is black and white. The sun blasts all color from the streets ricocheting it up...
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May.13.2013
The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velázquez that hangs in a gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is surrounded...
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Sep.12.2012
If you’re an author, traditionally or self-published, you can now sell your eBooks on Red Room! Plus, if you’re a Premium Member...
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May.16.2013
My late father-in-law built a birdhouse for our yard. It was a simple thing—a box, painted dark brown, with a peaked roof, a...
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May.18.2013
by Jane Wilson
Two of my favorite characters are Miss Spinster and Judge I.M. Oldenbald. I like them because they wear the same clothes much of...
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May.19.2013
One week later, Randy pulled up in Caroline's front yard. His old pickup truck rattled over the dirt drive in front of the house...
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May.19.2013
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
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From my January 27 column on tips for using the dictionary:
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