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Anastasia Ashman

The twinge of heritage

Mirror in Topkapı harem by A. AshmanBy ANASTASIA ASHMANSince the Ottoman royal harems were filled with women from the Mediterranean and the Baltic...
Steven Travers

Excerpt from PIGSKIN WARRIORS

  TOP SINGLE-SEASON TEAMS OF THE DECADES   19th Century: 1893 Princeton 1900s:                         1901 Michigan 1910s:                         1913 Washington  1920s:...
Christopher Meeks

QUOTES NEEDED: The Truth of Writing Fiction

  I find myself one week away from talking to an auditorium full of people on "The Pursuit of Truth in Fiction." I...
Dale Estey

AUTHOR MAKES MONEY

Ignore the fact that this discusses Sarah Palin and whatever you think of her politics. The breakdown of the way a book makes...
Dale Estey

BOOKS GIFT SUGGESTIONS FROM AUTHORS

We asked Penguin Group authors to tell us which books they are giving, and which books they'd most like to receive this holiday...
Jess Wells

Honoring the Divinity Within Us

In reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s delightful Eat Pray Love I stumbled across the chant she relies on: Om Namah Shivaya.  ‘I honor the divinity...
Terry  Spear

Joy of Family at Thanksgiving???

In Relative Danger, family get togethers can be murderously dangerous.  But a family who plays together, stays together, right?   One year, my mother-in-law cooked...
James Buchanan

Settling In

I think one of the reasons I enjoy ghost writing so much is that it removes the need for me to select the...
Lauren  Baratz-Logsted

Book of the Week: The Crying Tree

THE CRYING TREE, Naseem Rakha. This accomplished literary debut deals with one of my hot-button issues: capital punishment. In 1985, 15-year-old Shep Stanley...
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  • Bernice  McFadden
    Bernice L McFadden Influences: Toni Morrison Alice Walker Rita Dove J. California Cooper Ann Petry Upcoming Works: Lover Man (written under my pseudonym Geneva Holliday) June 2009 Agent(s): Andrew Stuart Publisher(s): Dutton Plume Random House Causes I Support: Hurston Wright Foundation Girls Write Now Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
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Ivory Madison

Democrats Eat Babies on Christmas, Institute Says

[This story originally ran in a major news outlet that shall remain nameless. Okay, I made it up in response to a story...
Red Room Well Red

Weekly Blog Topic: Halloween

"Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn, and caldron bubble." –Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 Halloween has become many countries' most popular occasion to...

Overheard In the Red Room

"I need (books) the way arteries need blood, the way teenagers need Twitter, the way the BBC needs Helen Mirren."

-- Kyla Perry