See? Behind my Dad. Entertainment in a box!

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My brother recently blogged about the fun/mishaps of people ‘rubbering in’ on the party phone lines.

It's here. …

Indie publishing your first book is always exciting, but in this case it is quite special, as Matthew is a young adult with autism. He wrote this book during our tutoring sessions. 



The Magic Quest tells the tale of a young man who must stop the Evil Wizard from getting his hands on a certain spell book and thus destroying the world. Magic spells, people-turned-animals-turned-people, detestable bad guys, humor, suspense; this book has it all and more. It is not…

By Becky Green Aaronson  

Ingredients

1 Open Mind

1/2 cup Inspiration

3/4 cup Talent

1 cup Originality

1 cup Authenticity

2 cups Motivation…

http://cathysvoicenow.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/story-time/…

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France, 1944: Nobody expects Peter Eddy to survive his first commando mission—to retrieve a code book stolen by the Nazis—so when he does come back alive, his success is rewarded with an even more daunting assignment. Partnered with French…

I witnessed the sun rise over Harlem. Harlem NYC.

How different it is to wake up here than in Raleigh. No birds singing. No birds in sight. No grass, few trees. No greenery to be seen. But I have found a LOVE for it.

I walked down Lenox Avenue, 125th street. I saw the Harlem Hospital, the old YMCA, the NYC library. My original plan was to find the Schomberg Research center but I found so much more!. I found ME!

THIS is where I come from! Not Harlem specifically…

Apparently not every idea I come up with is gold (I know - shocking!). Not every random story can give me a good book. It wasn't till I started researching that I found out how easy it was to sift the chaff from the real deal. Its called the LOCK Method (Check LOCK Method for more info). Basically the theory suggests that for your idea to pass through the gates of your brain to your fingers…

I woke up to coffee, oatmeal and Katherine Gregor wrote a lovely lovely review of I Woke Up In Love This Morning on Smashwords. Now I'm watching a documentary they did on Animal Planet on mermaids. I can't think of a better way to start the last day of my thirties.

The months before I turned thirty I remember feeling so…

Last week we loaded up the old RV, and I do mean, “loaded” and took off for a few days of fun and sun at Emerald Isle, North Carolina. When we left on Tuesday it was hot and sunny. I couldn’t wrap my mind around the weather forecast for the next day saying there would be wind gusts up to thirty-five miles per hour with heavy rain.

Upon arrival we found our campsite on the first row right in front of the ocean. I was sort of sad that a big sand dune hid our view of the…

Monday Muse profiles Montana Poet Laureate Sheryl Noethe, successor to Henry Real Bird.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/monday-muse-montanas-poet-laureate.html

For years, I've wondered what the secret to writing was.   How do you do it?

Attach butt to chair with superglue, hold pen to paper until your hand falls off?

 Here's a system that works for me.

1. Write longhand

In a notebook. Any notebook will do but try to find one that pleases you.  I use hard bound lined notebooks with bright coveres.

2. Write often.Try to have your pen touch paper at least once in a 24 hour cycle

3. When you feel that you've…

                                                                         A HOUSE TO BE RENEWED.

                                                                    WINDY RIDGE. PRESENT DAY.

DAY 14. ACT ONE.

THE FIRST CLUSTER OF SCENES.

ASSIGNMENT.

COME UP. WITH TWENTY…

Let me first start by saying that I am family historian, one of those people who upon learning your last name will go home, open a database and see if we're related somehow. So this weekend, I received a death record and transcribed a labor contract between my Hathorn family and their former owners, also the Hathorn family. 

This sparked an idea that took over the rest of the weekend and over 7000 words later, I have a project that will last into the next few weeks. So much for the…

INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF "MATILDA PEPPERCORN, MANX" AND MANY OTHERS, JILL MARSHALL



 



Hello Jill, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. It is a pleasure to have the chance to get to know more about you and your writing. First tell us about your newest novel and why you decided to write it. 



It’s such a pleasure to be here, all the way from my…

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What I hope to do in any one day and what I actually do are vastly different.

When I sit down at the end of the day and celebrate three things I have done- some days that includes making a meal, clearing the kitchen and hanging the…

Everything is energy--a consolidated package of consciousness vibrating at a certain frequency of light and sound. Everything. Even a word… a punctuation mark… a gust of wind… a fragrant rose… a petal it grows and then sheds… Everything marks a union of wavelengths, each with their…

If you haven't read Ferraris's novels, beginning with Finding Nouf, you are in for a treat. Start with the first book to get acquainted with lab tech Katya Hijazi who works in the female section of the Jeddah coroner's office. Ferraris lived for a while in Saudi Arabia, and her novels give us a complex, close up view of a culture that remains largely hidden from view (yes, some of it under burqas!) except for news about wealth, oil and the politics of the Middle East. John Kenyon at Grift…