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The Book Stops Here: The Evolution of the Selfie

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Monday, August 17, 2015. The Evolution of the Selfie. By Dr Suzana E. Flores. There are several terms and phrases that define our generation, and “the selfie” is one of them. The word selfie has become so widely-used, that in 2013 it was actually proclaimed the word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary. The Airplane Captain Selfie:. And on that note, we have. The Airplane Emergency Mask Selfie:. The Recent Car Crash Selfie:. The Why Women Live Longer than Men Selfie:. The Super Hero Selfie:. Van Gogh did...

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The Book Stops Here: January 2015

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Sunday, January 25, 2015. Dear Writer's Block, Please Die. It isn't the first time I've had writer's block. But, it certainly feels just as dreadful and career-ending every time I do. When I have it, I often imagine writer's block to be a person who bursts in through my door uninvited, much like Kramer, wearing a red cape, two horns and a triangular tipped tail. Nah," he says, then takes a swig of coke directly from the 2 liter. "I'm good.". Lucky for me, this happened. Each time this pest comes for an u...

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PeterHogenkampWrites: July 2015

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Monday, July 20, 2015. Hiking the Highlands of Tortola: An Essay mostly in pictures. Let me the set the stage for you: it 's mid-July and my wife and I have just started a fabulous week at her aunt's villa on a hill high over Long Bay Beach, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, on e of th e nicest stretch es of white sand you are going to find in the world. So, what to do to get our vacation started off o n the right foot? Yu p, you guessed it: slip on the hiking sandals and trek up and over the. This aloe i...

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The Book Stops Here: December 2014

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Monday, December 29, 2014. What I Learned from My Year of Writing Too Many Jokes. As part of my New Years resolutions for 2014, I committed to writing 2,014 jokes in addition to those that I write for columns or as part of my stand-up comedy sets. (Apparently I was high on Dayquil when this year began.) I also pledged to post many of them on FB and Twitter, just to hold my feet, uh fingers, to the fire, as it were. Links to this post. Friday, December 26, 2014. Links to this post. Same thing with writing...

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QueryTracker Blog: March 2015

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Helping Authors Find Literary Agents. Monday, March 30, 2015. The 5 Essential Steps to Getting a Literary Agent (Guest Post). We've spent the month discussing different aspects of the querying process and writing query letters. It's really been a lot to take in! However, I want to leave you all with a message of hope, simplicity, and achievability- querying can a tough process, but it's not an impossible one. Step 1) Getting Your First Rejection. Why, you ask, is this the first step? And the occasional p...

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The Book Stops Here: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, A Book Review

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, A Book Review. When it comes right down to it, a book is just a story. In our infinite zeal to analyze. Everything, to b reak every. Thing down into its respective parts, we have created the. Elements of a book. Character, sett ing , pl ot, and theme- but in the end a book lives or dies b y the s tory it tells . Perhaps even more so by the way. It tells the story. There is n o better example of th is. Gest Dictator who ever dictated. But be ...

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The Book Stops Here: Release Day: An Indie Author's List of Rants, Raves, Regrets, and Re-Do's

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Friday, June 12, 2015. Release Day: An Indie Author's List of Rants, Raves, Regrets, and Re-Do's. Today, my Victorian dark fantasy THE HEARTBEAT THIEF. Released for Kindle. And I'm going absolutely bonkers. I don't know why. It's not my first time in this rodeo. THIEF is my fifth novel release so I should be used to this. I shouldn't be fretting at the computer, obsessively checking Twitter and email and Amazon. Is completely, utterly, perfectly indie. It's a feeling that's almost too big to contain.

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The Book Stops Here: Writing Two Books at Once: Yea or Nay?

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Thursday, July 9, 2015. Writing Two Books at Once: Yea or Nay? It was some time after I'd finished one of the later drafts of. Coming out Oct. 6;Yay! That I started a new book, no, my. Book outside of the Sapphire Dubois Series. The 3rd Sapphire book was at an editor's, and I had some time on my hands, so I dove into a novel I refer to as Project X. In all honesty, I wanted to take a break from the world of blood, murder, and psychos after I finished Sapphire #2. However, the schedule didn't allow it.