Tag: novel
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February 17, 2008 09:36 PM EST --
If you had asked Detective Sam Harper who he could trust to always tell him the truth and always be men he'd want by his side when times were tough, it'd be his father, his partner and his boss. . . . more
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August 31, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
“Your opening scene was vivid,” The Donald wrote in his reply letter passing on my request that he represent my novel, Hollow Vengeance, “but that was not enough for me to keep turning . . . more
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August 29, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
Anyone who's been near me recently knows I have lately become a big fan of "The Donald." Maass, that is, the New York literary uber agent; not the New York real estate one with the . . . more
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September 04, 2007 02:26 AM EDT --
As most people here know, Terry Shaw is the winner of The Gather First Chapters Writing Competition that ran last January. Geoffrey Edwards, another Gather member, is the runner up in the Gather First . . . more
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July 30, 2008 01:34 AM EDT --
With the release of its new book, The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry, publisher William Morrow is giving away an all-expenses paid weekend for two to Salem, Massachusetts, for one lucky reader.
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May 03, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
TRACKS, a novel in stories, is in search of a literary agent.
TRACKS takes place on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago. Each story is told from the perspective of a passenger on the train.
Although . . . more
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July 26, 2007 04:21 PM EDT --
Like most children his age, Thayne Davidson Miller, III, often said he hated his very existence. He didn't really hate it, but he didn't love it either. Thayne enjoyed some big advantages . . . more
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October 10, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
Welcome to live chat with the educator and author of "Swimming across the Hudson," Joshua Henkin.
We will be discussing his newest novel, "Matrimony."
This is a great opportunity . . . more
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September 11, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
I had an interesting idea recently.
I grew up in bars. My Mom was a bartender in these little 3-2 bars on Broadway street, in Minneapolis. A 3-2 bar is a bar that only serves the lower alchohol content . . . more
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October 05, 2007 08:26 PM EDT --
What's your mission?
Like many of us, I have a book I want to sell, first to a publisher and then to thousands of people on the edge of change--I have defined my market. But I have not stated in a . . . more
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September 01, 2006 01:34 AM EDT --
I just finished reading Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema and this is an incrediblely moving book. I don't know how to write most of my reaction without giving away a lot of the plot so all . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:08 PM EDT --
I believe I am now brain dead from reading all the round two Romance chapters. It took me 2 and a half days to read all of them. Boy, what a tough job to choose the best. They . . . more
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May 26, 2007 07:55 AM EDT --
Dialogue Should Fit the Characters:
Consider what your character is like and have what they say be in synch with their nature. You wouldn’t expect a rough and tumble, hard drinkin’ detective . . . more
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August 12, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
As an entirely unexpected surprise recently, I received an e-mail telling me Writer's Digest was making rebroadcasts of select sessions from the Pre-BEA Writer's Conference available to . . . more
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March 22, 2007 09:34 AM EDT --
This is a horror story worth reading even if you're not into horror stories. The author seems to have a way of making (or should I say forcing?) the reader to turn the page to see what happens next. . . . more
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April 18, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
Just when you thought things couldn't get much tougher for the publishing industry, the paper predecessors to forthcoming film adaptations may have begun taking a backseat to their own treatments. . . . more
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June 30, 2008 09:46 PM EDT --
By popular request, we are adding a pronunciation guide for those who have said that would will help them pronounce some of the difficult Chinese names in our novel, Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah . . . more
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March 21, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
When it was first published in the early 1980s, Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero was dubbed "Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation" by that all-knowing literary oracle USA Today (snark). . . . more
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August 24, 2007 06:28 AM EDT --
After thirty years of being happily married to the same wonderful person and 111 kid-years of being a parent of six practically perfect children, few things phase me anymore. I thought I had pretty . . . more
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July 18, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
For those not in the know, Mickey Spillane, the creator of the hallmark Mike Hammer character and books, has passed on.
RIP, Mickey. May your books live on in reprints and collectors' editions.
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