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The Sitting Swing - Author Interview - Irene Watson
Paperback Writer | September 5th 2008 by Rebecca
Paperback Writer is pleased to announce our guest author today. Join Irene Watson, author of the memoir, The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference (Loving Healing Press, Aug. ‘08). Read on and find out how she came up with the id read more
Q&A with a Story Guru: Jessica Lipnack, Part 1
A Storied Career | September 3rd 2008 by Katharine Hansen
I could not be more pleased to present the second in my series of Q&A interviews with story practitioners. This interview is with Jessica Lipnack, whom I first encountered early in this decade through her expertise in virtual teams, another one read more
What’s Wrong With Mormons - Author Interview - B. Jay Gladwell
Paperback Writer | August 27th 2008 by Rebecca
Paperback Writer invites you to join B. Jay Gladwell, author of the non-fiction/religious book, What’s Wrong With Mormons? (Cold Tree Press, June ‘08), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in August on his first virtual book tour with read more
Christopher Isherwood
Gay For Today | August 25th 2008
Christopher Isherwood born 26 August 1904 (d. 1986)Christopher Isherwood (born Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) was an Anglo-American novelist. The son of landed gentry, he was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lan read more
Stephen Fry
Gay For Today | August 23rd 2008
Stephen Fry born 24 August 1957Stephen Fry is an English comedian, author, actor and filmmaker, who initially came to prominence in collaboration with fellow comic and actor, Hugh Laurie.He is also successful as a voiceover artist, narrator, TV quiz read more
James Kirkwood
Gay For Today | August 21st 2008
James Kirkwood born 22 August 1924 (d. 1989)James Kirkwood was an American playwright, actor and author born in Los Angeles. His novels include P.S. Your Cat Is Dead (1972), Good Times, Bad Times (1968)and Some Kind of Hero (1975); he was a capable a read more
Life After College - Author Interview - ChaChanna Simpson
Paperback Writer | August 21st 2008 by Rebecca
As a student you have been told what to do your entire life, first by your parents then your teachers, but what happens after the ink on the college diploma is dry? Our guest non-fiction author today, is ChaChanna Simpson and she is here to shed some read more
Virtual Book Tours as a Promotional Tool - Karen Harrington
Paperback Writer | August 20th 2008 by Rebecca
Virtual book tours are the latest wave of promotional tools for book authors. If you’re a published author and have any doubts about promoting your book by way of a virtual book tour, then this post is for you. Today at Paperback Writer we have a r read more
Read Well Think Well - Author Interview - Hal W. Lanse, Ph.D.
Paperback Writer | August 18th 2008 by Rebecca
Paperback Writer is pleased to introduce author of the parenting and educational book Hal W. Lanse, Ph.D., Dr. Hal is a premiere teacher trainer in New York City, specializing in middle-grade and young-adult literacy. He is the winner of the 1997 Fra read more
Roger Peyrefitte
Gay For Today | August 16th 2008
Roger Peyrefitte born 17 August 1907 (d. 2000)Roger Peyrefitte was born in Castres in south western France and educated in Catholic boarding schools in the region. The most lasting effect of this religious education was his life-long hostility to the read more
Wallace Thurman
Gay For Today | August 15th 2008
Wallace Thurman born 16 August 1902 (d. 1934)Wallace Henry Thurman was an African American novelist during the Harlem Renaissance. He is best known for his novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, which describes discrimination based on sk read more
The Joy of Pregnancy - Author Interview - Tori Kropp
Paperback Writer | August 13th 2008 by Rebecca
Our guest author today at Paperback Writer is Tori Kropp. Tori is the author of the parenting and pregnancy book, The Joy of Pregnancy (Harvard Common Press, April ‘08), and is on a virtual book tours with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! read more
Bleach/Blackout - Guest Author - David Grant
Paperback Writer | August 11th 2008 by Rebecca
Our Guest Author today is David Grant author of the double novel Bleach/Blackout. He comes to us again by way of his virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion. Previously, with his first novel David answered interview questions about the nov read more
Angus Wilson
Gay For Today | August 10th 2008
Angus Wilson born 11 August 1913 (d. 1991)Angus Wilson was a British novelist and short story writer. He received a knighthood for his services to literature.Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to an English father and South African mother. read more
Authors and Their Books - Leave A Comment- Be A Winner
Paperback Writer | August 10th 2008 by Rebecca
Authors and Their Books – Leave A Comment – Be A Winner in August If you stopped at Paperback Writer today I hope it’s because of your interest in books and the authors who write them. This week we have an exciting array of authors and read more
The 99th Monkey - Author Interview - Eliezer Sobel
Paperback Writer | August 8th 2008 by Rebecca
Eliezer Sobel joins us today at Paperback Writer. Eliezer is the author of the memoir, The 99th Monkey; A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures. Eliezer is also t read more
Tool for creative writers, novelists and authors
Blog Tips For Pro Blogger And How to Make Money Online | August 6th 2008 by Weblogian
make money online STRANDS: StorY Book is a software primarily for creative writers, novelists and authors to assist them to structure their writing and manage the strands in their books and novels. PERFORMANCE: Even if you are not a full time writer read more
Left to Die - Lisa Jackson - Book Spotlight
Paperback Writer | August 5th 2008 by Rebecca
About the Book: The first of her best selling romantic thrillers to be set in Montana, LEFT TO DIE takes readers to the magnificent Bitteroot Mountain Range, its beauty marred by the horror of the killings taking place there. In nearby Granite Fal read more
Gordon Merrick
Gay For Today | August 2nd 2008
Gordon Merrick born 3 August 1916 (d. 1988)Gordon Merrick was a best-selling author of gay-themed novels, and one of the first authors to write about homosexual themes for a mass audience.During most of Merrick's life, homosexuality was still viewed read more
James Baldwin
Gay For Today | August 1st 2008
James Baldwin born 2 August 1924 (d. 1987)James Baldwin was born at Harlem Hospital in New York City to a poor, unmarried, twenty-year-old woman named Emma Berdis Jones. Baldwin's early years were deeply troubled. At home - terrorised by an abusive s read more
Doris Lessing still makes sense
Leo Africanus | July 27th 2008 by Leo Africanus
Doris Lessing in the New York Times Magazine: Are you still practicing Sufism? I think the word is “studying” it, “learning” it. Isn’t it a strand of Islam, founded by Muhammad? I know people think this, because they have looked in the ne read more
How to mine your life for writing material (1)
How To Get Your Novel Published | July 23rd 2008 by David Bridger
In this occasional series I will explore and describe the way I mine emotional material from the depths of my sadnesses, the heights of my joys, and the plains of my everydays. Meet my friend Jacob! It’s 8am here. The builders will be here in read more
Boomer Babes - Author Interview - Maria Grazia Swan
Paperback Writer | July 23rd 2008 by Rebecca
Today, Paperback Writer gets a visit from Maria Grazia Swan, author of BOOMER BABES: TRUE TALES OF LOVE AND LUST in the Later Years (Leisure Books/Dorchester). Maria is a columnist for the online magazine Single for Now and has written a read more
Gavin Lambert
Gay For Today | July 22nd 2008
Gavin Lambert born 23 July 1924 (d. 2005)Gavin Lambert was a British-born screenwriter, novelist and biographer who lived for part of his life in Hollywood.Lambert was educated at Cheltenham and Oxford, where he became friends with filmmakers Karel R read more
Samuel M Steward aka Phil Andros
Gay For Today | July 22nd 2008
Samuel M Steward born 23 July 1909 (d. 1993)Samuel Morris Steward, also known by the pen name Phil Andros, was a novelist and tattoo artist based in Oakland, California. He was born in Woodsfield, Ohio and attended the Ohio State University. He began read more
Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo
Gay For Today | July 21st 2008
Frederick Rolfe born 22 July 1860 (d. 1913)Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric.Rolfe was read more
Joseph Hansen
Gay For Today | July 18th 2008
Joseph Hansen born 19 July 1923 (d. 2004)Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota Joseph Hansen moved with his family to Minneapolis in 1933 and in 1936 to southern California, where he spent the rest of his life. He attended Pasasdena City College, and in 194 read more
Victorian Writers' Rooms
The Victorian Peeper | July 17th 2008 by Kristan Tetens
One of my favorite features of the online version of The Guardian is a page called simply "Writers' Rooms." Once a week or so, a photo and brief description is provided of the writing den of a famous novelist, biographer, or literary critic. These us read more
James Purdy
Gay For Today | July 16th 2008
James Purdy born 17 July 1923Novelist James Purdy was born in Ohio and moved to Chicago when he was still in his teens. He attended the University of Chicago and the University of Puebla in Mexico. From 1949 to 1953, he taught at Lawrence College in read more
Beneath a Buried House - Author Interview - Bob Avey
Paperback Writer | July 16th 2008 by Rebecca
About the Book: Things aren’t always what they seem. A police detective’s quest to uncover the truth behind the death of a transient makes him a target…from whom or what, he isn’t sure. Tulsa Police Detective, Ken read more
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