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Sep.16.2011
As the title indicates, this is not about the rules of flipping the bird. Entire books could be written about that topic. No-- this is about a rural phenomena. It consists of having at least one hand at the top of your steering wheel and when someone comes toward you in the opposite...
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Sep.14.2011
Gideon Chickenstalker is a 400-pound vampire from the hills of southern Ohio. He may be the most inept vampire in history. The Hillbilly Vampire Chronicles, by Tonto Fielding (Kindle) is filled with some of saddest people you will ever meet in fiction, yet their earnest attempts to navigate daily...
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Dec.27.2010
Get ready East Coast--sleeplessness, boredom and irritability await you. People with Cabin Fever, the condition very closely associated with people who do not have anything to do, suffer these affects by remaining indoors for long hours on account of heavy snowfall outside. And for you “big city”...
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Dec.26.2010
So here’s the scoop. I’m supposed to write an author’s blog, join a social web site (facebook), comment on others blogs and sites, etc., in order to market myself. I have one book of poetry and one novel published, which are with a small press. This means that maybe fifty people in the entire world...
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Dec.22.2010
The holiday meal, in America, has become an exercise in gourmandism. It has become an inborn tendency. The winter holidays have come nearer to our beloved Thanksgiving meal: gatherings with friends and family, large meals dominated by impertinent distain, self-complacency, misanthropy, and football...
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About Mark
Williams the author of Circus by Moonlight (poetry) as well as The Prophet of Sorrow (novel), which was a 2010 International Book Award Finalist (historical fiction) and Finalist in The National “Best Books 2010” Awards (fiction and literature,...
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Mark’s Favorite Books
The Discovery of Heaven, The Marx Family Saga, The Savage Detectives, to name a few.