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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

Author Q & A: Peter Cozzens (Part 1)

Civil War Books and Authors | July 3rd 2008

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“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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