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Jan.16.2012
I wrote a long exploratory post here: http://maryvictoria.net/?p=3326 go along and have a read...
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Dec.11.2011
This one I wrote a while ago, and it was snaffled up at the time in several different versions by various eccleisiastical markets who loved the Christmas angle and just wen crazy with it. It was perhaps not themost widely distributed short story I ever wrote, but it was certainly amongst the most...
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Oct.20.2011
You have two chances to win an ebook of my third Triads collection - three ghost stories collected under the title "Haunted" - just in time for Halloween!
Details are here:
http://anghara.livejournal.com/545526.html
I look forward to hearing from you!
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Jul.21.2011
Last night, I went to see the final Pottermovie.
Let me start with a few disclaimers here. The last Potter BOOK that I read was #3. The rest of my Potter experience was movies alone - and I appreciate at the outset that I may be losing out on the minutiae of it all thereby. But speaking of the...
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Jun.29.2011
What If … ? What if you could make a different choice at a critical moment in your life? What if you had married someone else, turned right instead of left, had taken that job you rejected? What if you had been born a man instead of a woman?
My new novel, "Midnight at Spanish Gardens,"...
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May.06.2011
One of the perennial items tossed at every living writer in almost every interview is "Where do you get your ideas?"
One well-known writer famously provided an address for an Ideas Shop in Schenectady (and had people TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY). I usually say that I have an Ideas Tree growing...
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May.03.2011
Alison Goodman defines a Talisman Book as "one of those novels that you read over and over again, a book that seems to resonate through you, that wards off the disappointments and insecurities of everyday life."
My Talisman Books are the ones I'd rescue from a burning building. For...
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Apr.27.2011
It begins. Somewhere. An insignificant trickle of water that grows and changes, gathers a history, becomes the River, and finally reaches the sea, and vanishes into its vastness.
The River. Full of life. Full of mystery. Full of stories.
Rivers have always been very important to humankind. They...
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Apr.20.2011
When I moved to New Zealand in 1994, it was with the full knowledge that my dog, a German Shepherd called Ari, would have to go into quarantine for six months before she would be allowed into the country. Suffering from mild hip dysplasia, her condition was nevertheless stable while she was living...
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Mar.30.2011
I've always been in love with notebooks. When I was younger it was hardcover notebooks in which I would write ENTIRE NOVELS, by hand, often in pencil. Later, especially when I graduated to the computer as a primary writing tool, they became smaller things I toted around in various purses and in...
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Mar.22.2011
I had an extraordinary childhood and youth, spent in three different countries in central and southern Africa, an era in my life that has laid its seal on the way I have lived my life ever since.
The original paperback version was published by a niche New Zealand publisher (that's where I was...
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Mar.21.2011
write4kids Editor’s note: Audrey is a 13-year-old student from California who is currently working on her own novel between school, sports and choir. She’s also a Contributing Editor to Write4Kids, focusing on middle grade and YA literature.
AUDREY — I’ve interviewed Alma Alexander. Ms....
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Jan.04.2011
I don't know when I first REALLy encountered J.R.R.Tolkien, and Middle Earth. They have simply been a part of my life forever. I fell into "Lord of the Rings" and it closed over my head, and I've been breathing it through silver ever since, its words and worlds often as real to me -...
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Dec.29.2010
I recently did a series of blog posts on my main blog, over at LiveJournal, on Museums.
It's done now - and I'd like to invite you to mosey on over there, if you're interested, and read the whole series, post by post. Here are the links - and they start at the BOTTOM, and then work up:
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Nov.27.2010
I suffer from occasional attacks of chutzpah.
One of these caught up to me sometime in the mid-eighties. I was in my early-to-mid-twenties, trembling (in literary terms) on the edge of a high nest with my wings outstretched and trying to fledge, and, naturally, the way I did this thing was not to...
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About Alma
Alma Alexander was born in a country that no longer exists, grew up in Africa, where she got to see elephants in the wild and hug lion cubs. She lived and worked on four continents and in seven countries before she was forty, not counting the new and...
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African Wildlife Foundation (www.awf.org)
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