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Aug.13.2010
An excerpt deleted from my novel DUBROVNIK:
The icy-cold water kept my eyes open. The steep river bank drifted fifty-feet to my right. Ibiza, the seventy-foot yawl ten-feet above me, was unreachable safety.
When your mind goes blank, your eyes sheen over, and your body becomes unresponsive while...
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Aug.07.2010
In her strong, throaty Russian accent, Celestine said, “Pull your pants down around your ankles, and don’t try anything stupid.”
I wasn’t wearing a shirt or shoes and didn’t want to drop my pants. I stood by the bed the Broz family let me use in their house for the night.
“Or what,” I asked, “you...
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Aug.06.2010
At dawn, I maneuvered my Porsche through thick hail, on a curvy mountain road—I collided head-on with a Cadillac on my side of the blacktop--my demise was imminent.
Two weeks afterward I awakened in a psycho-ward in San Mateo County General where three Nazi therapists controlled the quarter. They...
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Aug.05.2010
There was a time when life wasn’t worth living; when I was in Serbia and sniper bullets sizzled past my ears, when Turk soldiers pointed their riffles at me and unsnapped their trigger safety’s, when an untrustworthy acquaintance reported I’d trafficked drugs and Croatian police confiscated my...
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Jul.31.2010
When I lived in communist Croatia, working as a spy, I was privileged to meet Marshal Broz Tito, who was then the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was too busy with formalities—becoming ill, facilitating his 32 palace residences and commanding the Yugoslav People’s Army...
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Jul.27.2010
Returned to Sedona, AZ from Monterey, CA yesterday. We're searching for a new residence somewhere in the Monterey, Carmel areas. The depressed real estate market has hit those areas but not so much. Foreclosures and short-sales are plentiful, but the problem is that most of the REOs and short-sales...
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Jul.21.2010
Earth...Sky...Intellectual Properties. Diamond in the rough.
http://roguewords.blogspot.com/
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Jul.07.2010
Facebook, twitter, blogspot, flickr, goodreads, writerface, whohub, scribd.com - you name the sites, I've joined them - hoping to establish new connections in areas of my interests. At the suggestion from three friends I've joined the Internet of superfluous dot coms, my friends assuring me that...
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Jun.28.2010
For those of you who asked to see what form rejection letters look like here are a few. Before you submit your query letter to lit agents make certain that it pops with intrigue, but again, popping does not always interest a lit agent. Here we go.
Dear Mr. Campbell,Many thanks for your email...
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Jun.28.2010
During the past two months I've been in contact with forty-two literary agents, representing forty-two different agencies. Let me restate that. I've had contact with only twelve out of twenty-two agents regarding my manuscript It's Only Make Believe, Isn't It? *Marilyn Monroe Returns*, and contact...
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Jun.26.2010
When do writers give up writing because; after receiving hundreds of postage-stamp rejections, all impersonal form rejects--that they don't have the skills or creativity to write queries that pop? That they finally understand that what they write is of no interest to readers? That all the...
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May.22.2010
In order to create movement, spacing and leverage in your story, article, manuscript, novel and etc, to be sharp, edgy, spellbinding, intelligent, tantalizing and tempestuous, you must edit and purge dead words and passive connections. Search for dead adverbs and adjectives, the ones that end with...
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Apr.23.2010
Just won this book today, WINDWARD PASSAGE by Jim Nisbet at litdrift.com.
Visit and register with litdrift.com. Cruise the site. You won't be disappointed.
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Apr.13.2010
You want to find a literary agent? You wan't to be published? You want to write creatively? You have unique stories to write about? The reading world is waiting for you to be discovered? Nanotech plus biometrics isn't rocket science. Now is the time to write your future. Here is your starting point...
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Apr.13.2010
You want to find a literary agent? You wan't to be published? You want to write creatively? You have unique stories to write about? The reading world is waiting for you to be discovered? Nanotech plus biometrics isn't rocket science. Now is the time to write your future. Here is your starting point...
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ”
—Ernest Hemingway
About Ben
The ground breaking novels DUBROVNIK and "VITRUVIAN MAN," along with the third exciting addition in this discovery trilogy, REGENERATION, are powerful, gripping and stunning. The series is now complete.
Each story is unique and creative and infused with...
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