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September 21, 2009
- We have a place in a village within an island county that has recently suffered trendiness. I knew the place had gone sadly uphill when I rounded a corner on a country road and coming at me was not a pick-up truck or ageing beater, but a shiny Maserati. Another encounter proved even more troubling, so much that I feel compelled to commit the egregious sin of blogging. We were walking the ...
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August 27, 2009
- Urban fantasy: confirmed undeadAug 24th, 2009 by Tim Holman. Much of the discussion concerning the general state of the SFF market tends to ignore urban fantasy. However, remove urban fantasy from the current SFF bestseller charts, and they collapse. Most of the bestselling authors disappear; many of the most successful new authors launched over recent years disappear; many of the authors with ...
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August 13, 2009
- INTERNATIONAL NEWS"A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the winners of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes this year." Another prize went to Tin Tua’s Literacy and Non-Formal Education Programme in eastern Burkina Faso.--from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural OrganizationCOVER CONTROVERSY"Proof of the power of the web: ...
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August 9, 2009
- Welcome to my new blog! I've decided to take a more personal approach to my new blogs and talk to you all as if you were my family... so what up fam? Of course, all biological family are not "family" so to speak but everyone has their portion and I encourage everyone to count their blessings. We should Love one another as the family of man-kind as much as possible. Many choose to ...
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July 29, 2009
- Find out what's hot in the world of publishing with this selection of recent industry news. INTERNATIONAL NEWS"India has been enjoying an English language literary boom." This has caused a huge increase in the number of genre novels of various kinds, and brought particular emphasis to writing focusing on Indian experiences, rather than literature aimed at a global market.--from ...
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June 19, 2009
- Fashion needs risk takers. If somebody hadn’t dared to wear the first bikini we’d all still be treading the proverbial waters in our woolen swimsuits. The trouble is some fashions have serious consequences. And we don’t just mean photographic evidence of that micro mini fiasco coming back to haunt you on Facebook. We’re talking permanent damage. We’re talking suntans. ...
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June 17, 2009
- Okay, disclaimer here...I do not have a tattoo, nor do I expect to get one in the near future. Having said that, they do intrigue me and because it seems to be a rite of passage any more, I have often contemplated what compels a person to get tattooed, choice of tattoo, and so on. I say that here because I have been thinking about this subject for quite some time and have some thoughts ...
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March 13, 2009
- Everybody seems to want something to shake dust and mold from assumed stagnant foundations. Ask any independent literary webzine editor what she wants and the words “original” and “new” will inevitably nestle into the response. This original and new work may come by way of various splintered isms, for better or worse.Literary isms sprout often, and lately it seems that so many of them ...
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October 8, 2008
- Here's a brilliant article my friend Gord sent me that, I think, presents an interesting view of what's going to happen with publishing in the next 3-5 years. Some portions of this lengthy piece are sobering and depressing but, personally, I eagerly look forward to the demise of corporate publishing, which has done more damage to high quality literature than TV, video games and the internet ...
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September 10, 2008
- Nothing New Under the Sun? Are we losing our creativity? One television hit begets countless clones. Most don't match the quality of the original. Maybe because the originality is gone. The same seems to hold true for the publishing industry. Lately, going into a bookstore seems to be "Variations on a Theme." One author strikes it big, and everyone starts writing the same book. ...
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