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Oct.29.2008
APE Update
by Bob Levin
Still planning to be signingbooks/sharing a table (Space 508A) with S. Clay Wilson at APE this Saturday, between 11 am and 4 pm (approx.).  But...
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Oct.29.2008
A Desperado just in time for Christmas
by Vijaya Schartz
Finally, A DESPERADO FOR CHRISTMAS has a cover, and I love it. Who wouldn't like a girl with a gun and a hunk with rippling abs? The ebook is coming...
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Oct.29.2008
Swearing V. Telling: Scenes from Writing and Life
by Elizabeth Stark
Remember when I posted about Charlie’s first swear word? And remember how he was holding the dust pan while saying, “Shit, shit”? Well, it turns out...
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Oct.29.2008
Diary mysteries, health appointments and writing issues
by Anne Brooke
Goodness me, but it appears to have snowed in Guildford this morning. Horrors! I hate snow – it’s unnatural, you know, and this is not what I pay my...
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Oct.29.2008
The Soloist: A Review
by Robert Earle
The Soloist is a successful variation a formulaic relationship between a not-normally-activist columnist and a schizophrenic street musician who once...
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Oct.29.2008
Copyediting the New Book, Tearing Out (Long) Hair
by Marilyn Kallet
I'm getting ready to walk the copyedited manuscript over to the post office, to Fed-X "Packing Light" back to the book designer.  It took...
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Oct.29.2008
Be Patriotic: DON'T Vote
by June Casagrande
Wait. Before you flip, just hear me out.  In 2006, a Southern California judge with 20 years’ experience on the bench was defeated at the ballot box...
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Oct.29.2008
The Kennedy Center's Thirteenth Annual Multicultural...
by Jorge Argueta
I will be appearing this Saturday The Kennedy Center's Thirteenth Annual Multicultural Children's Book Festival! The Kennedy Center invites all...
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Oct.29.2008
The Randomness of the American Dream
by Lisa Solod
"I don't believe in coincidences. I believe in the curlicued whimsy of fate," says Sam Tyler, the character actor Jason O'Mara plays on my...
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Oct.29.2008
Will Oprah make the Kindle a Bestseller?
by Anthony S Policastro
By Anthony S. Policastro My wife called me at work yesterday and was excited to tell me that Oprah was going berzerk praising the Kindle as her...
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Dec.18.2008
MsGamgee's Points Story: The Butcher's Boy
by MeiLin Miranda
The Butcher's Boy: “Barik Barikson?” she read. He nodded. “I’m Glaes Beloved. Before we begin, do you need anything? Water? The facilities? Very well...
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Dec.18.2008
Bill, a True Friend
by Paul Reed
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."  Thomas Fuller Bill has been my friend since we were 6 years old.  I still...
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Dec.18.2008
Paul Weyrich, Founder of the Heritage Foundation, Dies :: MAXINE
by Edmund Jenks
  Image Credit: weyrichdinner.org Paul Weyrich, Founder Of The Heritage Foundation, Dies Sad that the Conservative movement has lost its rudder...
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Dec.18.2008
A busy week
by Jonathan Dozier-Ezell
It's been a busy week here in Vermillion. I've finalized launch on three web sites and we're moving across the country tomorrow. As you can see, not...
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Dec.18.2008
Bring out your dead!
by Brad Green
Bring out your dead!  I hear the crotchety crumble of the wagon wheels over the white gravel of our driveway.  The man who whips the slow, trodding...
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Dec.18.2008
beautiful
by faraz siddiqui
Your eyes are velvet and your lips are creamYou send my life into a dreamYour voice melts the ice on my frozen heartIf only this could be the start...
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Dec.18.2008
Thursday's Prompt: Always on this day
by Ieva Melgalve
Thursday is the best day in the week for me; it's not the beginning of the week when I am frantic and confused and often sleepy; it's not the end of...
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Dec.18.2008
WELLCOMME-TO-MY-RANCH
by LILIAM MONTEIRO
http://originallilly.glogster.com/WELLCOMME-TO-MY-RANCH/
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Dec.18.2008
Somehow, They Knew Better
by Catherine Nagle
Somehow, They Knew Better   My mother, who joyfully raised seventeen children, certainly had the true life experience of qualified knowledge and...
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Dec.18.2008
This World Clamours for our Concerted Effort to Change!
by sadasivan Neelakantan -
What we see at the fag end of 2008 is a messed up planet--what with its polluted water,space,air and landmasses--,and a messed up world with all...
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