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Jun.29.2009
TOP SHELFRed Room congratulates the following authors and members on their achievements!
Award-Winning Author: Many congratulations to author Heidi Durrow, the most recent winner of the Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change, for her upcoming book The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (...
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Jun.26.2009
The images that accompany stories about summer reading lists often feature relaxed sunbathers in elegant poses, reading by the seaside. Do things like this ever truly happen? I can never read at the beach--it's too noisy, and my hands are so gritty with sunblock and sand that I really shouldn't be...
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Dec.07.2008
Red Room congratulates Mary Menacho, the winner of Red Room's National Novel Writing Month Contest!
Mary was among hundreds of Red Room authors and members who competed in November's NaNoWriMo, completing a 50,000-word draft and submitting it for recognition. "Wrimos," as contest entrants...
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Nov.04.2008
Hello Everyone! A few of you (especially in the US) may be pre-occupied by other goings-on today, but if you’re looking for a distraction, I’d like to introduce a few authors who have recently joined Red Room:
Jessica Anya Blau’s debut novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, is a coming of age...
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Oct.28.2008
Hello Red Roomers! This week I’m excited to introduce a group of terrific, diverse, and talented writers who have chosen to make a home on Red Room. Please visit them, encourage them to blog, and make them feel welcome.
Chris Baty is the founder of National Novel writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo....
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Oct.24.2008
Whether you’re a successful author about to miss your next book deadline, an aspiring author who’s been “meaning” to write a novel for years, or a non-writer who wants to do something crazy, have I got the month for you: November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! I’m encouraging all of...
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Oct.22.2008
Usually I pick five, but this week I just couldn’t narrow it down! As always, I’m excited to tell you about some of the new authors that joined Red Room this week. Pleaese visit them and say hello.
Cynthia Brian is a New York Times best-selling author and the founder of the charity Be the Star Your...
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Oct.07.2008
It’s that time of the week, and once again I’m excited to announce some terrific authors that have decided to make Red Room their online home. If you have the chance, please visit their page, maybe send them a note encouraging them to blog, and make them feel welcome.
Celia Lisset Alvarez is a...
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Sep.30.2008
It’s been another busy week here, and before it flies by I wanted to share with you all some of the most interested authors that are choosing Red Room as their new online homes:
Tom Bradley is an award winning novelist and essayist whose work has been featured on Salon.com, McSweeney’s, and...
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Sep.23.2008
What a week! Thanks to our re-designed books and blogs pages, our letter asking our Members to update their profiles, and the widely read and elegantly written blog by Tim Wise, we saw a huge increase in readership and traffic. As if that weren’t enough, I also was able to help a record number of...
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Sep.18.2008
I haven't been blogging much, but it's because I've been so busy! Still, I wanted to share with the rest of you some of the awesome new authors that have joined in just the past week:
Elizabeth Massie is a well known two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She...
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Dec.06.2007
Bay Area author and award-winning journalist Don Lattin is creating a stir in some religious circles with his new book, Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge.
Called “a horrifying picture of what happens when abuse is cloaked in religiosity” by Judy Muller of the...
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