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Lydia Netzer: How to Write a Sci-Fi Flash Fiction Story: Part 1: Fish Out of Water
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Thursday, April 4, 2013. How to Write a Sci-Fi Flash Fiction Story: Part 1: Fish Out of Water. Sci-fi Version: "For sale: Space suit. Never worn.". How hard could it be to write flash fiction! After all, it only has to be 500 words long. You could get 500 words out of a detailed grocery list or an angry Facebook post calling for genetically modified undersea pothole relief. (Or calling for an end to it.). True, writing 500 words is not hard. But what makes a story a story? 1 THE FISH OUT OF WATER. Goodby...
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Lydia Netzer: How to Buy an e-Book from your Local Indie Bookstore
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Saturday, June 7, 2014. How to Buy an e-Book from your Local Indie Bookstore. You may have heard the theory, currently being batted about on the internet, that buying books from Amazon will give you fleas, cause your hair to become dull and listless, send nuclear warships to Narnia, and cause the ghost of Charles Dickens to moan and twist on a spit of hot iron. You can't even get them in print if you beg. Take, for example, my e-novella, Everybody's Baby. Which by strange coincidence launched this week!
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Lydia Netzer: Best Of
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Read a new essay from Lydia about Shine Shine Shine, written for UK's BookOxygen web site:. In the New York Times:. The Man in the Moon. An op-ed on space exploration and the future of being human. A Highly Unlikely Scenario. A review of Rachel Cantor's debut novel. Confession of a Writer Full of Sin. I Finished My Novel In Paris. Call Me Mario: What Video Games Teach Us About Writing. How Other People Edited My Novel. When I Am Forty I Will Publish A Book. The Difficult Second Novel. 10 Best Marriage Vo...
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Lydia Netzer: Pet Black Holes and Book Events
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Monday, June 16, 2014. Pet Black Holes and Book Events. I made these toys. Some I have already given away. I gave them to bookstores who supported Shine Shine Shine. To bloggers and blurbers, to author friends and others. Some I have yet to give away. How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky. Will be launched in an avalanche of small knitted black holes, relentlessly attempting to draw in their companion planets, or your refrigerators, or anything else. ferromagnetic. How can you get one for yourself? If yo...
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Lydia Netzer: How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky Launch Week
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Monday, July 14, 2014. How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky Launch Week. The Norfolk launch party for How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky. Was celebrated by a lot of wonderful people at Smartmouth Brewery in Norfolk, hosted by Prince Books. Who could fail to be ecstatically happy when launching a second novel in a cool brewery with a ton of friends? And Heading Out to Wonderful. Joined me for the evening, and read from his brand new novel, Fall of Princes. November 22, 2014 at 11:40 PM. I never believ...
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Lydia Netzer: 10 Other Places Besides Amtrak That Should Give Writers Residencies
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014. 10 Other Places Besides Amtrak That Should Give Writers Residencies. Inspired by Amtrak's round-trip writers residency. On a train, and Sally Kilpatrick's recent adventure. To Staples, where she wrote 1000 words while trying out office furniture, I present ten more places that should give residencies to writers:. 1 That boxcar from Dexter. Photo: Håkan Dahlström - http:/ www.flickr.com/photos/dahlstroms/. Remember that weird abandoned-before-launch amusement park in China.
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Lydia Netzer: 10 Best Marriage Vows You Never Hear At Weddings
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Monday, July 30, 2012. 10 Best Marriage Vows You Never Hear At Weddings. Love is patient, love is kind, love endures, blah blah blah, isn't it all wonderful? Vowing to persevere through sickness and health and in wealth and poverty is tradition, and it's comfortable when associated with lace and roses. But hasn’t it proven to be fairly useless when it comes to forging marriages that last forever? 1 I promise to clarify my expectations. 3 I promise to make sure I'm not just hungry, before I yell at you.
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Lydia Netzer: UK/AUS
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Shine Shine Shine has been published in the United Kingdom and Australia by Simon and Schuster! Here is the beautiful cover they designed, and here are some reviews from the UK press:. 8216;Think The Corrections meets Geek Love in this captivating modern love story. Sweet. Funny clever’ - Red Magazine. 8216;This debut novel is a sparky study of family life with a slightly surreal twist’ Bella Magazine. 8216;Quirky and inventive’ - Mirror. January 6, 2013 at 9:35 AM. Help and advice for any kind of problem.
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Lydia Netzer: Events
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July 1, 7:00pm. Launch Party for How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky. Smartmouth Brewery, Norfolk, VA. March 22, 2:30pm. A Moveable Feast of Authors. Quarter Moon Books, Topsail, NC. James River Writers Conference. Old Dominion Literary Festival. The MUSE Writers Center. July 25th, 7:00pm. Reading/Signing at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, NC. July 10th, 6:30pm. Paperback Launch Party at Up Center Books, Norfolk, VA. May 8th, 7pm. Julie Wu and Lydia Netzer @ Prince Books. LA Times Festival of Books.
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Lydia Netzer: 15 Ways to Stay Married for 15 Years
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Thursday, April 19, 2012. 15 Ways to Stay Married for 15 Years. Here we are going in to our reception. I had a big bow on the back of my dress. This is where we met. Or Ladies’ Home Journal. We have never had a regular date night, nor do we prioritize “communication” or play sex games or see a therapist. He doesn’t bring me flowers every Thursday, I don’t cook his favorite food very often. But we do have some other ideas. 1 Go to bed mad. 2 Laugh if you can. 3 Don’t criticize. Ever. 4 Be the mirror.
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