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LEANING 50: February 2011
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Musings on the not so ordinary life of one Canadian chick. View my complete profile. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. I find great comfort in the universe’s ability to right itself; to maintain harmony; to counterbalance each action with an equal but opposite reaction. I can tend to forget about life’s splendid capacity for symmetry while wrapped up inside my head, particularly when my thoughts are darker than usual. 8220;Have you ever been in love? Paints a pretty sad picture eh? Gaimon’s description...
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LEANING 50: November 2010
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Musings on the not so ordinary life of one Canadian chick. View my complete profile. Monday, November 15, 2010. NaNo Update - Day 15. What a terrific day I had. Day 15 is the midway point in the NaNoWriMo project. 25,000 is today's mark for those who are schedule. I am still behind but catching up. grin. My stats today are:. Most wince worthy cliché written. You seem visibly upset. One body, throat slit, missing left hand. Best line so far. Most time squandery distraction. Scale of one to ten): 25. He wa...
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Writers Read: Nick Holdstock
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. S fiction and essays have appeared in a wide range of US and UK publications, including The London Review of Books. And Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of The Tree That Bleeds: A Uighur Town on the Edge. A book about life in China's Xinjiang province, and China's Forgotten People. Holdstock's new novel is The Casualties. Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. His reply:. Visit Nick Holdstock's website. Posted by Marshal Zeringue. The Page 69 Test.
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Ghost Noir: August 2012
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Welcome to Ghost Noir, F.J. Lennon's blog that focuses on fiction writing, classic pulp fiction, the supernatural, film noir, and digital entertainment. Thursday, August 30, 2012. My Guest Blog on My Book, the Movie. My Book, the Movie. Is a fun blog that asks authors to imagine that they have total freedom to create and cast a movie based on their latest novel. I'm honored that I was asked to guest blog regarding Devil's Gate. Here is my guest blog post. Dated August 13, 2012. Monday, August 27, 2012.
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE: Justin Gifford's "Street Poison"
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE. They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they’d say “Oh that’s interesting.” And that would be the end of it. - Elmore Leonard, in 2000, on the extent of his input for Hollywood's adaptation of his novels. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Justin Gifford's "Street Poison". Was a finalist for both the Edgar Allan Poe award for literary criticism and Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award for scholarship. And a handful of other streetwise crime novels with a third-...
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE: Sara Nickerson's "The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose & Me"
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE. They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they’d say “Oh that’s interesting.” And that would be the end of it. - Elmore Leonard, in 2000, on the extent of his input for Hollywood's adaptation of his novels. Saturday, August 8, 2015. Sara Nickerson's "The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose and Me". Began her professional writing career working in television and film. Her second novel, The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose and Me. The Page 99 Te...
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When the Muse Strikes . . .: Never Underestimate the Power of a Female Biker
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When the Muse Strikes . . . Monday, November 01, 2010. Never Underestimate the Power of a Female Biker. So, battery problem solved, but the bike still wouldn't start. It's a relatively new bike (I bought it new in Fall '08) and it doesn't have many miles on it. I ride it often, but to Daytona and back is the farthest I've ridden in one trip. So I really didn't think my problem could be anything major, something I couldn't solve on my own with a little research. My visit to that particular shop was my last.
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LIT LISTS: Critic's chart: mothers and daughters in literature
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008. Critic's chart: mothers and daughters in literature. Kate Saunders, who reviews fiction for the Times. London), picked a critic's chart of "mothers and daughters in literature.". Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy would have been nowhere without their “Marmee”, arguably literature's most perfect mother. Read about the other books on Saunders' chart. Subscribe To Lit Lists. At My Book, The Movie. Ronlyn Domingue's "The Mapmaker's War". Campaign for the American Reader. The Page 69 Test.
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author interviews: Jana K. Lipman
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Monday, March 16, 2009. Jana K. Lipman. Jana K. Lipman. Is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Tulane University. Her new book is Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. She generously responded to several questions of mine:. Zeringue: For better or worse, many readers really do judge a book by its cover. Would you explain your cover and comment on how it conveys what the reader will find in the pages? A Few Good Men ), and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ("the princi...
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author interviews: Susan Spann
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Thursday, August 13, 2015. Is a transactional attorney focusing on publishing law and a former law school professor. She has a deep interest in Asian culture and has studied Mandarin and Japanese. Her hobbies include Asian cooking, fencing, knife and shuriken. Throwing, traditional archery, martial arts, rock climbing, and horseback riding. Spann's novels include Blade of the Samurai. And Flask of the Drunken Master. From her 2014 Examiner Q and A:. 2 What year in history would you have liked to live in?
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