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July 18, 2009
- Poetry Events / CalendarsPoetry Events and Calendars in your Town or City[Please post addt'l venues in comments to be added!]~~~ALAlabama – http://www.writersforum.org/~~~CACalifornia / West Coast – http://www.poetryflash.org/Bay Area, California — Spoken Word ListingsGlendale, California – http://www.poeticresearch.com/Los Angeles, ...
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March 1, 2009
- I just came out of an extended period in what my staff (The Pack) refers to as "Black Ops." My pack, my friends, and my family all know that when I am on deadline for a book, I don't answer the phone, I don't open my email (I have most of email forwarded to one of The Pack), and, except to make sure my wolf Tiwa gets a little exercise, I definitely don't leave the house unless I'm out ...
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November 6, 2008
- I was preparing for a talk at one of our local libraries last week and as always, I tried to anticipate the types of questions those in the group might ask. One point of interest that always comes up is Internet marketing/exposure. Since one of the best tools at my fingertips is my website, I decided to take a look at the number of visitors I had received since I launched it on March 12, 2007. ...
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October 30, 2008
- In spite of these tears that will not stop, it is a beautiful morning. The sun spills golden light across the meadow grass, where a dozen ravens have spread out to search for food. Off to one side, both a magpie and a stellar's jay are perched in a lone ponderosa pine, watching. The sky over the shoulder of the mountains is achingly blue. My phone rings, and rings again. Emails ping into my ...
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October 11, 2008
- 10. I'm told that it's not a bodice ripper, but it sounds like one. 9. PS. I like bodice rippers. 8. It's going to take about eight hours to read. 7. The hero is an alpha male. I don't like books that give male chauvinist pigs a happy ending. 6. I don't identify with beautiful, spirited, young, virginal heroines who have some funny ideas about sex. 5. I can't get my tongue around the Dj- ...
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October 11, 2008
- 10. Insufficient Mating Material are not words I feel comfortable waving about in front of gentlemen. 9. If it's about a man with a small penis, I don't want to read that... I see enough of that at home/at the office/on TV. 8. It's going to take about eight hours to read 7b. I find it totally implausible that a male could have a tattoo on his male body parts... and as for one that flashes in ...
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October 11, 2008
- 10. It's long. It has 340 pages, and most new Chapters do not begin on a fresh page.9. It has a Prologue and an Epilogue. That's two beginnings, and two endings!8. It's going to take about eight hours to read 7b. Disrespectful words such as tallywacker and joystick are used with reference to male body parts7. The hero is a virgin and proud of it6. The heroine is locked in a ...
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October 7, 2008
- One night last week, a young, four-point buck stumbled onto a narrow stretch of mountain back road a few feet in front of my car. The deer teetered on long, slender legs that failed to move him forward according to his bidding, and he collapsed onto the dirt and gravel, one of his antlers broken, his mouth wet with dark moisture which began to slowly drip from his lower lip. I got out of my car ...
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September 11, 2008
- Buffalo area book publisher releases first sci-fi title. Mother and daughter team partner up to start new book publishing firm, SmatteringsBooks specializing in new sci-fi titles and historical non-fiction. Cynthia Willerth, residing in Lancaster, NY, wrote SmatteringsBooks first title "A Matter of Honor" which is the first book in the "Knife of Truth series. Set thousands of ...
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September 7, 2008
- Let's admit it: fantasy authors love trilogies. It's kind of hardwired into us, a sort of genetic predilection to multiple books, and for a number of years everyone's been reasonably comfortable with the state of things. Part of it's historical; the towering works in our field, Tolkien's most notably, came in that threefold form, and like so much of the rest of his work the idea has stuck ...
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