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christopher-meeks's picture
Sep.20.2012
Kirkus Reviews asked me out of the blue if I'd like to write about "How I Did It"--about how I achieved a level of success as an independent...
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Jun.15.2013
ACT ONE – DRAFT THREE August 4, 2002     HAVANA, CUBA - 1958   The intense afternoon sun reflects low off the water obscuring all...
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john-knoerle's picture
Jun.15.2013
“Murder My Sweet” – 1944. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, script by John Paxton, based on the novel “Farewell My Lovely” by Raymond Chandler. Stars Dick...
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annette-dunlea's picture
Jun.19.2009
Read Ireland Book Review - Back Issues Are Available Below Subscribe to Read Ireland Book Review - Our Free Weekly eBookReview The Most Recent...
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john-knoerle's picture
Jun.15.2013
“Murder My Sweet” – 1944. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, script by John Paxton, based on the novel “Farewell My Lovely” by Raymond Chandler. Stars Dick...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jun.21.2012
Of course they met at a library; they were both writers. He was a senior and already getting published in magazines. She was two years younger than...
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Jun.15.2013
Jim Murray's first column appeared on February 12, 1961. Titled “In This Corner, With the Pen, Is the New Guy,” it started out, “I have been urged by...
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barry-eva's picture
Apr.20.2013
It was another of our one hour specials as I introduce to the audience and chat with another member of the “Class of 2K13” in the form of author...
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JohnnyOla's picture
Jun.15.2013
  Are all politicians naturally stupid, or do they become stupid after they get sworn into office?   This is a question that mortal man may...
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Jun.15.2013
  Are all politicians naturally stupid, or do they become stupid after they get sworn into office?   This is a question that mortal man may...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Jun.20.2012
As I mentioned in my piece “The Accidental Publisher,” I’ve started slowly publishing other people’s books at White Whisker Books. For now, I’ve...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Feb.18.2012
The notion of “love at first sight” has a lot of basis in fact. That's what I learned in research for my novel. The big premise of Love At Absolute...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Feb.18.2012
The notion of “love at first sight” has a lot of basis in fact. That's what I learned in research for my novel. The big premise of Love At Absolute...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jan.06.2009
Thank you for all your notes and calls, my friends. Each time I receive an email or Facebook wall posting, my iPhone dings and I check. I cannot...
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dale-estey's picture
Nov.25.2011
I am so glad that there are still authors as intense and convoluted as Umberto Eco. And I am doubly content that they continue to get published. His...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Jun.11.2012
Last year, I wrote a piece called “My Realities—How to Market Your Book or Watch It Die.” I ended the piece explaining what I was about to do with...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Jun.11.2012
Last year, I wrote a piece called “My Realities—How to Market Your Book or Watch It Die.” I ended the piece explaining what I was about to do with...
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brian-mckee's picture
Sep.24.2009
I've been thinking about a dreaded type of personality I've met many times in my life. In fact I was one once, perhaps that's why I know them so well...
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Dec.03.2007
I write in the very early hours of the morning. Typically I get up at around 4 a.m., have cereal, read the San Francisco Chronicle, and heat up some...
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Jan.14.2008
From Des Moines, IA - January 3, 2008 Thank you, Iowa. You know, they said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They...
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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.