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Frankie, the Walk N Roll Dog!
Bark 'N' Blog | July 5th 2008 by Dr. Kim Bloomer
Oh I’m so tail waggin’ happy to be sharing this story! Frankie reminds me of a good friend of mine who went to heaven, Emma the Corgi! And Frankie is doing some grrreat work in this world to show that even though we may be different it do read more
Hot Trends, Hot Markets - Part 2: How to use book collection or c…
Cheryl Kaye Tardif Novels | July 5th 2008 by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Yesterday, I spoke at the CanWrite! Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, on the Hot Trends, Hot Markets panel. I had a great time and I hope that attendees left with a better understanding of how they can market themselves online through the use of soci read more
Celebrity Gossip
Buzzin' Celebrity Gossip | July 5th 2008 by john williams
The lovely Justin Timberlake is the new face of Givenchy men’s fragrance ‘Play’. The Sexy Back singer has been seen in several black and white photographs which will be out later this summer. Mr Timberlake, launched the new fragranc read more
Against the facts
Notes From A Rooom | July 5th 2008 by Peter
If we look at a person, we are bound in a short space of time to say what a horrible, what an unbearable person. If we look at Nature, we are bound to say, what a horrible what an unbearable Nature. If we look at something artificial — it doesn read more
Wisdom on campus
Notes From A Rooom | July 5th 2008 by Peter
Nervously, and without any real need whatever, Franny pushed back her hair with one hand. ‘I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while– just once in a while — there was at least some polite little read more
Notes From A Room’s 11 literary commandments
Notes From A Rooom | July 5th 2008 by Peter
1. Never approach it like a job. 2. Don’t seek refuge in craft. 3. Don’t be fashionable 4. Don’t write to please people. 5. Don’t be detached. 6. Weed out decadence. 7. Stake your sanity. 8. Risk grandeur. 9. Don’t follo read more
Women
Notes From A Rooom | July 5th 2008 by Peter
AS: Women in your books are, apart from a few exceptions, not drawn in a very friendly way. Is that your experience? TB: I can only say that for a quarter of a century I have dealt with women only. I can hardly bear men. I can’t bear conversati read more
Authors: They’re just like US! #3
Books on the Brain | July 5th 2008 by Lisa M.
The first question I posed to authors was, “What are you currently reading?” (click HERE to read that post). Next I asked, “What was the last book you gave up on, and why?” (click HERE to read that post). This time I’d lik read more
Alaska Strategy
Ameriborn Society | July 4th 2008 by William Landers Ameriborn Society
A MESSAGE FOR ALL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS. The campaigns and supporters of each presidential candidate’s should take my following information very serious. Alaska: McCain should have no problem here, his biggest challenger will not come Barrack Ob read more
Hot Trends, Hot Markets - Part 1: Social Networking
Cheryl Kaye Tardif Novels | July 4th 2008 by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Today, I'll be presenting on a panel at the 2008 CanWrite! Conference in Edmonton, Alberta. The topic of my panel is Hot Trends, Hot Markets, and it's the only panel that runs separately as a main feature. As an author, I'll be looking at this topic read more
Links of Interest (At Least To Me) 04/07/2008
Eoin Purcell's Blog | July 4th 2008
Eoin Purcell Kenny’s open a new book store in their new premises. COOL! Here A great review of The Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937, by Dermot Keogh and Andrew McCarthy in the DRB. I’m biased, I know, but this is one of the best and read more
Good morning sir
The Bedside Crow | July 4th 2008
Can I interest you in the new Clarkson? Didn't think so. read more
Faith in the Fog of War Volume II by Chris Plekenpol: FIRST WildC…
The Incurable Disease of Writing | July 4th 2008 by Missy
It is time to play a Wild Card! Every now and then, a book that I have chosen to read is going to pop up as a FIRST Wild Card Tour. Get dealt into the game! (Just click the button!) Wild Card Tours feature an author and his/her book’s FIRST cha read more
“The Lazarus Project” by Aleksandar Hemon
Rise Up | July 3rd 2008 by Matthew Dustin
I just sent Aleksander Hemon this email, feeling compelled to express my thoughts to him. To: sasha@aleksandarhemon.com I just finished The Lazarus Project this morning and I had to drop you a line to let you know how much I liked your book. It was e read more
Me and the Murakami army go way back
The Bedside Crow | July 3rd 2008
Last night, having recently read the brilliant extract from Haruki Murakami's new book What I talk About When I Talk About Running, published in this issue of the New Yorker, and then having watched a very mediocre television program about... read more
Truthiness and Pablumonium
The Scholarly Kitchen | July 3rd 2008
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, I published a post containing a neologism — pablumonium — that caught people’s attention. I was pleasantly surprised by the emails and feedback since it was a long post and a wry insertion of a strang read more
Flash Fiction Series by Marco Kaufman: Headphones
Online Creative Writing Center | One Real Story | July 3rd 2008 by One Real Story
Chris and Don were sitting in Chris’s dorm room when there was a knock at the door. It was a guy named Jay. Chris had never met him before, but Don knew Jay because they had the same major. Jay was stopping by because Don, who was editor of the read more
Upcoming literary festivals - UK - July 2008
Lit News | July 2nd 2008 by Samantha
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A Lost Soul in Gay Wonderland
Online Creative Writing Center | One Real Story | July 2nd 2008 by One Real Story
by Joseph Itiel Bruce Tobias is an outstanding research librarian. There are many other things that can be said about him but they seem not to matter much. Except for being a genius at research he is, as someone once described him, “just a dude.” read more
July Events and News at www.bittenbybooks.com!
Weird Stuff in My Desk | July 2nd 2008 by Rachel
Hi everybody! There are LOTS of great events happening this month at Bitten by Books! Each event has some kind of giveaway/contest as well as lots of interesting conversation. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter on the right hand side of the websit read more
Ready for Writing Success?
A Writer's Edge | July 2nd 2008 by Georganna Hancock
When I was teaching a course on writing, one student revealed a major stumbling block. He was writing a book, a decent one at that. I thought he stood a good chance of getting an agent and selling the story to a publisher. But when I came to the m read more
Promote Your Work on Amazon with Amazon Connect
The Writer's Technology Companion | July 2nd 2008 by Dustin Wax
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could stand in the bookstore next to your books and recommend them directly to anyone who stopped to take a look? You could answer questions, talk about how you came to write it, mention the sequel you’re workin read more
Billy Collins - Forgetfulness
The Bedside Crow | July 2nd 2008
For no other reason than the link was sent to me by a lovely customer. I think, maybe, she is trying to tell me something - possibly about our poetry shelves. Thanks Gill. read more
Announcing...Bookstrumpet
Word Strumpet | July 1st 2008 by Charlotte Rains Dixon
You may have noticed my periodic call for people who would like to become contributors to a new book review site. I am pleased to announce that the new site is live and ready to roll. Here's the site url:... read more
To Admit or Not To Admit, “I’m A Writer!”
Nexus: A Neo Novel | July 1st 2008 by amrit55
Our journey of writing “Nexus” began during a seminar led by Richard G. Green. We didn’t know it then but Richard would become our writing mentor. The seminar was about Native story-telling but you anyone was welcome to attend, Native and read more
The Naked Invisibility of Michelle Obama
9 Months to Birthing my BestSeller | July 1st 2008 by Adrienne Zurub
A ‘Naked Invisible' is someone, notably a woman who puts herself out there and makes herself vulnerable in word, person and deed and no one appreciates her, or sees her for what she is and... Obsession, Love, Invisibility, Family, pOetic justice. read more
Camy Tang interview and giveaway
wandering, wonderings of a whacked-out woman | July 1st 2008
Describe yourself and/or tell us about your family and Snickers.I grew up in Hawaii on the island of O'ahu, and my family is stillthere. I married a wonderful Chinese American man and we adopted amixed-breed mutt from the Santa Clara Humane Society a read more
My Fiction and Me
Archies Archive | July 1st 2008
Some readers may have noticed that there is a new group amongst my Blog Roll; “Idiosyncratica”. This is a group of blogging writers and readers who have decided to form a group and “do something” together, each month. This is read more
Market-based Solution to Info-glut
The Scholarly Kitchen | July 1st 2008
Finding a solution to a glut of information and a scarcity of attention can work for email and scholarly publishing. read more
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