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jill-jepson's picture
May.24.2012
The most common question I am asked by writers is, "What should I write about?" Surprisingly, this comes up more for people who want to engage the...
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nathan-burgoine's picture
May.24.2012
May is "Short Story Month." So here's the thing about hockey. One of the two stories I wrote in this anthology is about hockey. I thought that as a...
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j-marc-schmidt's picture
May.24.2012
The Hunter, directed by Daniel Nettheim, is a quality, high-gloss Australian film, the kind which pops up every year or so with the aid of a liberal...
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May.24.2012
When I lived in India, I disliked bitter gourd with a passion. I thought it an unnatural, dangerous, distasteful vegetable, with its ridged skin not...
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May.24.2012
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jeffrey-ricker's picture
May.24.2012
As in, I am one chapter away from finishing the first draft of book 2. I can do this. In fact, I can do this this weekend. There, I've said it. I'm...
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dale-estey's picture
May.24.2012
A long while ago - long enough that I do not remember which enlightened mother I was talking to - I was party to a discussion about Children's (YA)...
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deborah-grabien's picture
May.24.2012
This morning we lost a light in the world. Her passing leaves a patch of darkness, and I don't see that place being relit any time soon.   At...
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lisa-yee's picture
May.24.2012
As many of you know, or may not know, or now know, I do lots of elementary and middleschool visits.       But it's also fun...
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chris-bohjalian's picture
May.24.2012
"War and genocide are things of men, not women. Dehumanizing another, a requisite of such acts, is diametrically opposed to their nature as those who...
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kelly-tweeddale's picture
May.24.2012
As I make my way through my music playlist, I find myself yearning for the few simple buttons on the control panel to help manage my life. ...
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bob-mustin's picture
May.24.2012
image via en.wikipedi.org   George Lucas' Red Tails The Missus and I decided to catch this flick on cable tonight via a four-dollar-off...
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dorothy-thompson's picture
May.24.2012
We continue with our series of interviews with authors talking about their book promotion strategies.  We're talking today to Denise Robbins,...
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suellen-ocean's picture
May.24.2012
Moors from North Africa who conquered Spain and Portugal (called the Iberian Peninsula in the early 700's) gave refuge and opportunity to the...
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marcia-fine's picture
May.24.2012
I invite you to visit my website and enjoy a FREE PREVIEW of the 1st two chapters The Blind Eye--A Sephardic Journey. It's satirical historical...
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bob-mustin's picture
May.24.2012
I've just finished writing a scene for my medieval historical novel - a scene I'd been dreading. It has to do with a famed debate between two...
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May.24.2012
It has been a bad week for disco: Robin Gibb, one of the Bee Gees, and ‘disco queen’ Donna Summer passed away. Reluctantly, I have to admit I was...
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carrie-king's picture
May.24.2012
By Christy Tillery French, Midwest Book Review I especially find it hard to write reviews when the book is just extraordinary and I want to convey...
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michael-barry's picture
May.24.2012
On this date in 1863, the good citizens of Bannack, Montana, elect Henry Plummer as their new sheriff, not realizing he is a hardened outlaw who will...
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rebbecca-hill's picture
May.24.2012
Walking in the blazing morning sun thinking about decisions and life changes, Crow flys past, closely. I look up as I usually do, to acknowledge his...
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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.