Tag: fiction
group name: books
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February 27, 2008 08:47 PM EST --
April Newton has every reason to be elated. She just passed her 5-year anniversary of being cancer free, her husband is building a dream house just for her, and her daughter is a star . . . more
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March 05, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
I am very excited at the thought of being in a chatroom, of sorts, with readers. They always say that writing is a lonely business, and in a way that's quite true.
It's a little less lonely for . . . more
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June 27, 2008 02:05 PM EDT --
Jack Engelhard has written several books, Indecent Proposal the title you're probably familiar with. Another you may not know of, though, is The Bathsheba Deadline .
Although The Bathsheba . . . more
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June 29, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
As I've said in previous articles, my husband just built me a huge bookcase. Although my other bookcase was overflowing with books, now I have a lot of empty space to fill. I'm in the process of . . . more
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September 15, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
Editing Is Your Friend
As an editor, I find many writers have either edited their work too much or too little.
The key is to edit well enough to create a great story, but not too much . . . more
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February 04, 2008 03:00 PM EST --
On February 4th at 3:00 p.m. EST, we had a fun conversation regarding the issues brought up in Ariana Franklin's book "Mistress of the Art of Death." The following is a transcript . . . more
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November 30, 2007 02:48 PM EST --
On Monday, December 10th at 10 p.m. ET, bestselling crime fiction writer Linda Fairstein will reveal her favorite true crime story on Court TV's series "Murder By The Book." The . . . more
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July 08, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
I am so glad that I was chosen to review this book! It was a real page-turner as you can tell - despite having been incredibly busy lately, it only took me a week to read it. I imagine that . . . more
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November 02, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
Ebooks have been around for a long time. Publishers have complained that they don’t sell well. Readers have complained about things like DRM (Digital Rights Management) that keep ebooks on a distributor’s . . . more
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October 04, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --
Does SF (not fantasy like Harry Potter) have any appeal to mainstream readers? The only SF writers that do, that I can think of, are Michael Crichton and Greg Bear. Greg Bear's novel Darwin's Radio . . . more
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . . more
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . . more
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June 03, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
I said I wasn't going to write one of these articles, the kind that asks a question. But I want to know.
What fiction do you read? Do you read by genre? By author? . . . more
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May 31, 2007 10:45 PM EDT --
On October 26, 1991 twenty-year-old Clare Abshire met the love of her life at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She planned the meeting. She had spent endless hours with Henry DeTamble since she was a child. . . . more
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April 21, 2008 08:45 AM EDT --
Vi Connelly is a true romantic, a firm believer that the Perfect Man is out there. She's also gained the reputation of being possibly the perfect bridesmaid and a true wedding enthusiast. But . . . more
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July 06, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
Horatio Hornblower is the ideal action hero, a character created by talented British author C.S. Forester, who also wrote The African Queen. Hornblower is a man subject to the same anxieties and doubts . . . more
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July 27, 2008 12:43 PM EDT --
Here's a quick piece on what to do once you've finished your book, if you want to have it published (not self-publish). I emailed this to a Gather friend who asked and thought there might be others . . . more
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . . more
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July 06, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
The Messenger by Daniel Silva
I'd never read any of Silva's books. The Messenger 's story promised to be an interesting one: Israeli spy helps U.S. track down and get rid of man who . . . more
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April 30, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
I got my copy of The Department of Lost and Found, by Allison Winn Scotch, on Monday afternoon. By Tuesday evening, I had finished reading it. That may not sound like much to some of you, . . . more
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