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Deborah Shlian's Blog
October 22, 2009
- Sammy Greene, star of Dead Air by Deborah Shlian & Linda Reid has decided to start her own blog. Here's her first entry. Check out the Sammy Greene website for more info on Sammy - the 5 foot tall, feisty red head with her own radio talk show.
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October 22, 2009
- Dead Air by Deborah Shlian & Linda Reid won the 2009 National Best Books Award by USA Books News. Named "hottest new thriller".
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October 12, 2009
- Joel and I have been invited to speak at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 5PM. The panel will consist of other Gold Medal Winners of the Florida Book Award. Rabbit in the Moon won the Gold for Genre Fiction. Hope to see you all there. It may even be on Book TV!
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October 12, 2009
- Joel and I have been invited to speak at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 5PM. The panel will consist of other Gold Medal Winners of the Florida Book Award. Rabbit in the Moon won the Gold for Genre Fiction. Hope to see you all there. It may even be on Book TV!
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July 24, 2009
- The National Public Radio review of our novel Rabbit in the Moon was aired live Tuesday July 21. WeI sat listening with a certain level of anxiety, hoping the review would be positive. And it was! We were so excited that we had to share with our friends and fans. So here is the link to the archived podcast: http://wgcu.org/programs/floridabookpage/The book can be purchased from any retail ...
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July 24, 2009
- The National Public Radio review of our novel Rabbit in the Moon was aired live Tuesday July 21. WeI sat listening with a certain level of anxiety, hoping the review would be positive. And it was! We were so excited that we had to share with our friends and fans. So here is the link to the archived podcast: http://wgcu.org/programs/floridabookpage/The book can be purchased from any retail ...
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May 30, 2009
- Rabbit in the Moon won ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Silver Medal for Mystery! According to founder and publisher, Victoria Sutherland, winners were selected by dozens of librarians and booksellers who are experts in the subject matter of the books they judged, and who make purchasing decisions daily for their collections or bookstores. Naturally, we are thrilled. Congrats to fellow ...
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May 15, 2009
- The backdrop of our novel, Rabbit in the Moon, is the seven weeks in 1989 between the April rise of the student Democracy movement and its fall with the Tiananmen massacre on June 4. During those few weeks in 1989 that we all watched on CNN, many of the UCLA students from Mainland China who we hosted were communicating with friends and family back home. In talking with them, it was clear that ...
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March 27, 2009
- We just returned home after a seven hour drive from Tallahassee. Wednesday night’s Florida Heritage Awards ceremony, which included the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal winners, was quite special. After a successful book signing sponsored by the Museum of Florida History, we were ushered into a “green room” for snacks and pre-ceremony instructions. At exactly 7PM, we were told to march ...
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March 21, 2009
- According to a report from Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, a human rights group out of Beijing, China has arrested Zhang Shijun, a former soldier who recently posted a letter on the Internet asking President Hu Jintao to “use his wisdom” to reevaluate what the Communist Party called a counter-revolutionary incident, but in fact was a massacre of hundreds if not thousands of student ...
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March 11, 2009
- Yesterday (March 10, 2009) was the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule that sent the Dalai Lama, age 73, into exile. 2009 is a year of several politically sensitive anniversaries. As each approaches, the Chinese government is clamping down on any potential unrest. On March 10, armed Chinese troops stepped up identity checks of Tibetans and hotel guests as ...
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March 6, 2009
- The short-lived student democracy movement of 1989 had one prominent supporter among the Communist Party leaders: Zhao Ziyang. Fearing a loss of power as the protests grew and ordinary citizens joined the demonstrations, Deng Xioping, then head of the Party, wrote an editorial for the People’s Daily accusing the students of creating “turmoil”. This was really a signal that the hard-liners ...
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March 2, 2009
- According to a BBC article, a group of mothers whose children were killed in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 are now urging the Chinese government to end the taboo against acknowledging the event not as a “political disturbance” but a massacre. They want a full investigation of Deng Xiaoping’s decision to send tanks and troops to crush what was a peaceful demonstration of students and ...
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March 1, 2009
- Exciting news: our latest novel, Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian has won the the gold medal in the Genre Fiction category for the Florida Book Awards. The Florida Book Awards-now the most comprehensive state book awards program in the nation--is an annual program established in 2006 that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous ...
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February 2, 2009
- As China faces its own domestic financial crisis, the leadership has received increasing criticism from within the country, most notably the December 10, 2008 Charter ’08, a petition originally signed by 300 dissidents, now with perhaps thousands of additional signatures. Fears of destabilization have produced a wave of crackdowns designed to squelch dissent before a series of politically ...
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