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mia-king's picture
Aug.02.2008
I am currently finishing up my manuscript for my third novel, Table Manners, the sequel to Good Things. In a strange twist of fate, it is due to my...
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darlene-arden's picture
Aug.02.2008
I spent yesterday in Rhode Island at the WCFO International Freestyle Conference and today nursing a migraine. Tonight I want to write the blog that...
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roosevelt-pitt's picture
Aug.02.2008
Ever really taken a slow walk through a supermarket? You can't escape the harsh reality that we are surrounded and bombarded by choices. They're at...
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mary-bergin's picture
Aug.02.2008
Our 100-passenger ferry is rocking me like a drunken, slapdash sailor, so my eyes stay closed during most of this three-hour ride. I am a wimp, with...
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steve-hauk's picture
Aug.02.2008
The room at Deptford again, a month or two later. Will Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd, who is in a kind of depressed stupor, at the table,...
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gerard-jones's picture
Aug.02.2008
This is the phase of every book that I call the Haunting. Actually, I've never called it that, I just all of a sudden thought of it. But it fits. It'...
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evie-shockley's picture
Aug.02.2008
In a belated response to Belle's call for photos of our writing spaces, I've created a small image gallery of mine. They appear in the reverse order...
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ivory-madison's picture
Aug.02.2008
To be approved as a Red Room Author and to participate in our community, we require what would be required in any authors’ real life community: That...
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cheryl-l-snell's picture
Aug.02.2008
Mary Karr will feature Knight's poem, "Cell Song", in her column tomorrow. No, I am not psychic--the supplements always come on Saturday....
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dale-e-tafoya's picture
Aug.02.2008
I always wondered how my life would change after my first book, Bash Brothers, was released. Would becoming a published author transform and...
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bevan-morrison's picture
Oct.19.2008
Hey Senator McCain, how does it feel to know that one of the most respected members of your party, Colin Powell, endorsed Barack Obama this morning...
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nadevine's picture
Oct.19.2008
  It's a new day in America, one in which eloquence is a bad thing, at least if you're willing to take seriously John McCain's sarcastic remarks at...
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jennifer-allison's picture
Oct.19.2008
I am starting to hate the color pink.  Somehow pink has come to represent breast cancer.   Breast cancer is not cute.  It is not frilly or girlie or...
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former member's picture
Oct.19.2008
by former member
In the wide world of synthesizer guitars, the Synthaxe may well be the choicest both in its aesthetics and its raw awesomeness could. John Hollis...
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former member's picture
Oct.19.2008
by former member
I've got an account on linkedln.  I'm not really big on myspace.com or facebook.com but the thing that I like about linkedln is that you can network...
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former member's picture
Oct.19.2008
by former member
A friend of mine, Julie Greene wrote this wonderful little short story called "At the Crossroads." I thought I'd post it here so that...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.19.2008
This morning there are a few odds and ends to update people on.  I've written before about the weirdness of the prosecution in KidThree's shooting,...
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tara-bradford's picture
Oct.19.2008
We are all Americans. I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican. We may disagree on fundamental issues, but each of us is entitled to our own...
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former member's picture
Oct.18.2008
by former member
The month of October brings more of the same.  There is work to be done and I am thoroughly enthused by the notion.  My publisher and I are pulling...
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former member's picture
Oct.18.2008
by former member
I’ve elected the Level 2 class. I might not be entirely ready for it, but Em tells me that the Level 2-3 class of the storied Subramanya is the class...
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