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scott-c-holstad's picture
Dec.02.2008
I received this email message from the Authors Guild yesterday and wanted to share it with other Authors Guild members who might be interested:...
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james-buchanan's picture
Dec.02.2008
It doesn't really matter if the economy is strong or in tatters as it currently is, the challenge and importance of writing a very good query letter...
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terry-spear's picture
Dec.02.2008
Last night as I was driving home from work, I saw the most interesting phenomenon--two brilliant stars courting the half crescent moon. No, not stars...
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farzana-versey's picture
Dec.02.2008
The man whose biography I am completing is dead. I am at a loss. There is the personal loss and then the helplessness that there won’t be the...
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loren-rhoads's picture
Dec.02.2008
It's that time of year again! In honor of the season, my annual message: Myrrh is mine, it's bitter perfumeBreathes a life of gathering...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Dec.02.2008
Julien never wanted to go to school, not from the first moment I dropped him off for a two-hour trial visit at a local Montessori. “No,” he cried,...
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angela-k-nickerson's picture
Dec.02.2008
The word is out!  Passports with Purpose has begun!  Nearly 30 travel bloggers have joined together to raise money for Heifer International.  Read...
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lian-frost's picture
Dec.02.2008
The long silence suddenly burst in rising bubbles of laughter, a face in the crowd   like a gold wrapped gift  bearing my name pealed open the plain...
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cynthia-w-gentry's picture
Dec.01.2008
My story "Just Friends" was published today on a new Web site, Ravenous Romance. As usual, there's a story behind the story--although it's...
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josh-goldfaden's picture
Dec.01.2008
As I write these words — the day after Thanksgiving — my stomach won’t stop bubbling and squealing. Yet my biggest regret about this Thanksgiving isn...
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vivian-mcinerny's picture
Feb.06.2009
I work 4 days a week in a newsroom. Well, I get paid to work 4 days a week. The truth is, like most writers, I'm a little obsessive and so even on my...
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former member's picture
Feb.06.2009
by former member
Round characters, full of both happiness and sadness.All in a world full of poetry.
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former member's picture
Feb.06.2009
by former member
"The Beydanes, also known as White Moors, are the ruling caste in Mauritania. They are Arab Berber tribesmen whose ancestors established control...
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tad-kershner's picture
Feb.06.2009
Sometimes it feels awful, not having all the answers. Being stuck, or lost, or adrift. What if I never solve this problem? What if I never cross this...
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former member's picture
Feb.06.2009
by former member
If I see another novel based on a character from “Pride and Prejudice,” I’m going to scream! It’s like “CSI.” There’s the original, the campy “CSI:...
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christopher-taylor's picture
Feb.06.2009
Starting with a little anequedote always breaks the ice, right?  When I was a sophmore in college, I wanted to go on a trip to Brazil.  It was a...
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former member's picture
Feb.06.2009
by former member
In 1966, NBC broadcast a GE College Bowl match between a team from Princeton University (all male, of course—Princeton wouldn't go co-ed until three...
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susan-brown's picture
Feb.06.2009
I'm almost through a biography of Don Marquis.  Every so often at the library, I wander past the biography shelves to see if a name on a spine...
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former member's picture
Feb.06.2009
by former member
Dear Readers:      I came across this article on Nathan Bransford's blog: http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/2009/02/emergency-you-tell-me-king-v...
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former member's picture
Feb.06.2009
by former member
Dear Readers:      When I came across this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29035047/ about a 60-year-old woman giving birth to twins, I was...
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