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May.16.2013
A very nice --if blush-inducing-- way to wake up: thank you, Elisabeth Zguta! For (I hasten to add, with another double entendre blush at the...
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May.15.2013
Last week, I wrote a little about Michael Krasny's book Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest. In that post, I wrote that Krasny and I were "...
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May.15.2013
  Words From Beyond: Playing with Virtual Fire (A review of “Ready Player One”) Adira Rotstein | 10 May 2013 | Books | 0 Comments  ...
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thaisa-frank's picture
May.15.2013
    Time in fiction   Time is the dark horse of fiction.  Without a sense of unfolding, emergent time—time that is happening at...
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May.15.2013
Time in fiction   Time is the dark horse of fiction.  Without a sense of unfolding, emergent time—time that is happening at the very moment...
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adira-rotstein's picture
May.15.2013
  On Zombies   I have to say I find the current zombie fad a total turn off for me.  The whole Hollywood-comic book concept of zombies...
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May.15.2013
  There is no magic bullet. Just write the stories you wish were out there, but aren't. Write what you are passionate about. You have to love...
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dk-christi's picture
May.15.2013
The year was 1971.  I had followed all the advice for natural childbirth and was holding my precious newborn at my breast.  His birth was...
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May.15.2013
Getting into a new character's head is always fun. Today, Canada Writes had a challenge: Lawmakers/Lawbreakers, wherein you were to tweet, with 140...
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lisa-jensen's picture
May.15.2013
Har! Look what the tide washed in, me hearties! Precious booty, indeed—a box of my author's copies of Alias Hook, freshly arrived from my publisher...
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May.16.2013
The San Antonio Spurs are the gem of Texas. Pounding the Rock Managing Editor J.R. Wilco joins host Phil Naessens to talk about his...
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May.16.2013
My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” could be said to be a late bloomer in the literary world his first book finally saw the light of literary...
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May.16.2013
Southernisms.  I am sure there are Northernisms but I was born and bred in the South and have no idea what those would be.  To be fair, my...
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May.16.2013
  “I don’t think I can stand another honey bun and Coke,” I disgustedly told my best friend Jimmy, as we surveyed the rack of sweet breads in...
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May.16.2013
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anne-born's picture
May.16.2013
The best parenting advice came to me in the form of my son’s first kindergarten report card from a hippy, progressive school in New York that relied...
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