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Apr.21.2012 - 7:24 am
Mayans To Throng Times Square...
dick clark & myans.jpg
Purloined from the site of Mary Duke, a new Facebook friend, the most succinct visual commentary & pop-culture "in memorium" seen thus far this (last) year... RIP Dick...
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Apr.17.2012 - 6:29 am
The Hell Of Manuscript Submissions...
To all the kindly souls who have asked (usually gently, as if inquiring about a sickly family member) about the status of FIRE OF THE PROPHET, my latest thriller... ...well, my...
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Apr.12.2012 - 6:28 am
Justice Dept., Thanks For The 'Help'
HEADLINE: Justice Dept. Sues E-Book Publishers & Apple Thanks a lot, guys... not. Sure, technology has put every tool of publishing in the hands of individual authors. A...
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Apr.05.2012 - 4:35 pm
Yes, This Blog Is Off-Color... But...
From our ongoing chronicles of "sometimes you simply couldn't make this stuff up," the following story of love gone wrong and the painfully ironic name of the hospital to which...
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Comments from Earl

Mar.21.2012 - 7:17 am
In response to: (Raw) Musings: The Right To Say 'No'
We Love The Morning E-Mail...
E-mailed reaction from three readers this morning show just why writers drink as much as we (allegedly) do... "This...
Mar.14.2012 - 5:07 am
In response to: On 'What The Hell Is Happening In Publishing?!?"
Salman Rushdie Joins The Fray...
And more on the "let's make 'em price books so that authors starve" -controversy. --E "Hunger Games, Indeed" Merkel...
Feb.25.2012 - 5:43 pm
In response to: Start Writing, or Shut Up
Thrust! Parry!
It's times like these that I wish I were running for elective office; I could then deploy a real cliche --"I'm sorry if...
Feb.25.2012 - 7:10 am
In response to: Start Writing, or Shut Up
Uh... well, okay... but not so...
(chuckle) Okay, okay-- I get it: Ms. Jones' article was intended to motivate "writers" to apply butt to chair and get...
Oct.01.2011 - 6:52 am
In response to: WANTED: A Good (Woman?) Writer For A Book I Want To Read
Me? I've Lost MY Grip...
(chuckle) You fiendish minx, you! I know what's going on here, Christine: you're using me to energize yourself to write...

Writing

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Short Story: Sample Chapter, FINAL EPIDEMIC
Short Story: Sample Chapter, VIRGINS AND MARTYRS

Published Reviews

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Virgins And Martyrs: An Aria Quynn Novel
Aug.13.2008
Virgins And Martyrs
Published by Fiction Nation Reviews (http://www.fictionnationonline.com/reviews/virginsandmartyrs.html)
Virgins and Martys by Earl Merkel I'm Kim Alexander and this is Fiction Nation. The book is Virgins and Martyrs by Earl Merkel. Is it possible to write a book about a bombing at a...
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Audio & Video

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Audio: THE GREAT INFLUENZA: Interview with John Barry
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Audio: Oops! Hilarious interview with author Martin J. Smith
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Audio: Interview: Lawrence Block on Writing
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About Earl

Earl Merkel is the author of Virgins And Martyrs (Five Star 2008, under the name "E L Merkel"; Final Epidemic (PenguinPutnam/NAL), a Barnes and Noble national bestseller re-released in hardcover by Elmtree Press/Tifda Publishing in January 2008; and Dirty...
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