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October 7, 2009
- Re: Redroom blog theme "rescue." Helping the undersung literary fiction writer is something that has long been on my mind. I am a director at an arts foundation called the Dactyl Foundation in NYC. Primarily, I organize lectures on art and science and run poetry readings and discussion forums, but the Foundation doesn't do anything for novelists. Since I am a novelist, I'm not sure ...
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June 27, 2009
- The University of Michigan Press annually sponsors The Literary Fiction Award, the prize for which is publication of your novel. It's a wonderful press that publishes really fine literary fiction. No fees for this contest, either. You do have to have previously published at least one literary novel or story collection in English, though. If you meet that qualification and have a manuscript ready ...
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June 4, 2009
- The vigilante assassin drove across the state reaching the Atlantic coast at 4 a.m. He had a mission assigned to him by superiors he never saw. They contacted him online using code he read in articles posted on CHNNEWS.net. The title of the article often relayed his target. If not, he searched for keywords in specific order as he scanned down the paragraphs knowing the first sentence of each held ...
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June 1, 2009
- You were smooth, worked your target with the skill you acquired by watching your Vampire master, and from your recent failed attempts. Despite those failures, you persisted, and now you have succeeded in Turning the man or woman of your dreams.Eternity beckons you like a lover greeting a returning warrior. After this night, you know you will never walk alone again. Sure, you've had your vampire ...
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May 23, 2009
- Well, wasn't that one serious night on the town? You dressed to seduce, succeeded grandly, but oops, slightly intoxicated by success you went and forgot to pull out in time to avoid the inevitable. That's right; the Turnee didn't make it, dropped at your feet looking very pale and flaccid. There is nothing you can do to rectify the mistake, so you must deal with it.Of course, you are an ...
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May 20, 2009
- Several weeks to three months beyond the day of your Turning, life will seem vastly different as will your appearance.By now, your once supple tanned flesh glows pale under moonlight, may appear slightly translucent and feel like chamois. Not to worry, this is perfectly normal for a new vampire. Consider it the new you, and with time you will learn to appreciate and even value your new look.In ...
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May 14, 2009
- The joy of your first Taking, and hints for living your new life (sic).As with anything worth doing in life, the same holds true for those among us who have recently become the walking dead. I regret how dreadful that must sound, but now that you are a newly minted vampire, you must make the effort to truly appreciate and receive the blessings of eternal life--albeit a nighttime existence.Since ...
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April 30, 2009
- Terrific, witty new contest at Smith Magazine: can you write your memoir as a mother in just 6 words. I imagine that it's inspired by the Hemingway challenge that he could write a complete story in six words ("Baby shoes for sale. Never used." Or was that "baby crib"? Either way, a heartbreak, briefly said.) Of course if you have teenagers they'll complain that you could ...
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April 23, 2009
- During the intense and winding quest to secure this book (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned) for Tea for Two a lot has happened. For starters you might check out the raging controversy involving Amazon (Just when you thought it was safe to use Amazon, brought to by the proud makers of online shopping paranoia and conflict) so obviously for now that's out as a book shopping option. Borders and ...
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April 18, 2009
- Out of close to 10,000 entries, JERUSALEM MAIDEN has now made it to the semifinals in Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The selection was made solely upon Publishers' Weekly review combined with Amazon's experts' reviews.This is what the editors at Publishers’ Weekly had to say—even before the novel comes out of the gate: “... The author draws upon meticulous research to paint a ...
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