Tag: writing
group name: booknookftl
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September 18, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
When I got my advance copy of Terry Shaw’s novel The Way Life Should Be, winner of Gather.com’s First Chapter Writing Competition, I started to read it with some trepidation and many reservations. . . . more
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July 02, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
Jacqueline loved her high place a top the dune. She was the only one who climbed up here, who had the whole expanse of the sea and the beach at which to gaze, the magnificent old home in the distance . . . more
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June 17, 2008 02:22 PM EDT --
My first contact with Nyota, the "owner" of the OOOS group was when she contacted me to add tags to my reviews. I have to admit that her request kinda irritated me, because race of . . . more
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July 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Hello all,
So my book Practically Posh was just released and is already sweeping the nation, or at least my office, literally.
Yesterday, Marissa, a co-producer on the station, was . . . more
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October 25, 2007 01:11 PM EDT --
David Baldacci has thrilled readers with his fast-paced mysteries ever since the release of his first novel, "Absolute Power." This November, Baldacci releases the third novel in his Camel . . . more
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September 17, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
1984
by George Orwell
(5/5 stars)
"1984"--or "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in the Oldspeak--is one of those books prophecizing doom that has remained relevant enough to generate a famous . . . more
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March 23, 2007 09:01 AM EDT --
If you must write because it's who you are, this book is for you. It's memoir, it's inspiration, it's who we are, and as you read it you think to yourself, yes, she's nailed it, that's . . . more
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:42 AM EST --
It started as a picture in my mind: a young woman wallking on a beach with the sun coming up. The beach was wide and long and she was the only person on it. Was she alone by her own choice or because . . . more
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March 08, 2008 11:41 PM EST --
I flipped through John Gardner's On Writers and Writing earlier today. In places tedious and too highbrow for a casual read, it nevertheless started me thinking. About novelists. About their novels. . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:37 PM EDT --
All little girls love pink.
Right?
Wrong.
Despite the rosy-tinted title and cover of my latest book, I must confess that loving the color pink came relatively late to me. It took an unusually, . . . more
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June 06, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
***PERMISSION TO FORWARD GRANTED AND ENCOURAGED***
There's still time to get your entry in to the Stiletto Contest. If
you don't write traditional romance (Chick Lit, Women's Fiction, . . . more
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January 06, 2008 06:37 PM EST --
On Monday, January 21 st at 10 p.m. ET, bestselling crime fiction writer Jonathan Kellerman will reveal his favorite true crime story on Tru TV's series "Murder By The Book." Find . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
I write about my obsessions. I have a lot of them so I stay pretty busy. Little Pink Raincoat is a prime example of dual obsessions: men and fashion. To me, they're inextricably linked. The book . . . more
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June 02, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
Why don't we know much about history?
For nearly twenty years, I have been working on that very troublesome question –and trying to solve the problem by writing and talking to people about . . . more
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July 17, 2008 01:50 PM EDT --
Yes! It's true!
I've sold In Over Her Head to Sourcebooks for publication in June, 2009.
And I've also sold the next two books in the Mer series, Whale of a Tail (Rod's story) and . . . more
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April 30, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
The fresh water with electrifying
Waves singing miraculous jingles,
Compelled me to reflect beyond
What was overlooked in fleetness?
Different dancers in . . . more
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June 09, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
In AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY , I tell six separate stories, each of which reveals an "untold tale" that your schoolbooks left out.
These six stories cover a broad range of our history, . . . more
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February 12, 2008 10:22 AM EST --
One of the things a writer is supposed to do is to strip away the surface of our everyday selves and get underneath what's polished and pretty to the more essential stuff of life. After writing three . . . more
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