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Recent review of Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning
notes from the underground | 13 hours ago by agent139
Modern Collective Unconscious by Amos Lassen "Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning" is a trip like none you have ever taken. Paranoia is common, dreams haunt, and ends mean beginnings. The book explores modern culture and pays attention to hidden effects s read more
Bitter? Me? Fucking Right I Am!
Gary William Murning Online | 16 hours ago by Gary William Murning
Okay, I’m not really bitter. I’m actually quite sweet (I’d offer to let you suck me and see, but I’m sure it would be misconstrued by the filthy-minded among us — of which there are many ) I have not a bitter bone in my read more
When Life Gets Tough, The TeeTotalers Don’t Quite Get Drunk
C.D. Blizzard -Commentary on writing and the writer’s life… | 18 hours ago
Sometimes life gets a little rough. It happens to all of us, no matter our social status. Sometimes life gets so damn rough that even a teetotaler like me can succumb to a wee nip now and then. (Notice I say wee nip here, with the emphasis on w read more
iPhone novelist interviewed on CTV tonight
Cheryl Kaye Tardif Novels | October 9th 2008 by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Check out CTV News tonight, for those of you who get it. I was interviewed for tonight's show. They were very interested about my idea to use my new iPhone 3G to write a novel titled Finding Bliss. This cool idea was actually something my husband tho read more
A Different Kind of Empty Nest
Susan Gabriel | October 9th 2008 by Susan Gabriel
Publish those books, get them out of the house, experience a different kind of empty nest. read more
Book of Dreams Art
Behind the Page | October 8th 2008 by Maartje van Hoorn
Because it's awesome! Go read Book of Dreams, here. read more
Because I’m just THAT crazy!
Eternal Vigilance | October 7th 2008 by Gabrielle Faust
A few years ago a friend of mine in Australia tried to get me involved in an online challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in a month called NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. At the time I thought she was crazy…now, here I have gone a read more
[Interview] David Wellington, author of 'Monster Planet'
Conversations with Writers | October 7th 2008
David Wellington was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but currently lives in New York City.He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Penn State as well as a masters degree in Library Science from Pratt Institute.He has written ei read more
Terrific Tuesday
Sandie Hudson ~ Writing Romance | October 6th 2008 by Sandie Hudson
There is action going on all around me at the moment. On the home front, we have two mares ready to check to see if they are in foal. Its school holidays, so I have my grandson staying with during the week. Not a great deal of writing being done, but read more
NaNoWriMo 2008
Saturday Scribes | October 6th 2008
For those of you who haven’t heard of this fantabulous 30-day event, National Novel Writing Month is an annual writing challenge that brings together writers from around the world (despite its name, it’s really been the InterNational Nove read more
This week’s winner…
Stories Rule! | October 6th 2008 by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Congratulations to JC, who posted here, and as a result, has been pulled out of the hat to win this week’s prize of a choice of download of any of my published books. Congrats! JC, please contact me with your choice of book. _________ Remember that read more
Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Drea…
KnowProSE.com | October 6th 2008
What would you do if you only had $25 and a knapsack of belongings to start off with, no place to stay and no job to speak of? And where would you be in a year? These are some of the questions that author Adam Shepard set out to answer and write abo read more
Cold In Hand by John Harvey - Review
Authors-Books | October 5th 2008
Cold in Hand by John Harvey Between 1989 and 1998, John Harvey published 10 novels about Nottingham Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick. The Resnick series earned acclaim from critics and other novelists and won every prize available to an English cr read more
Novels update
Japanophile Isle | October 5th 2008 by jpzer0
-first of all Yen Press has licensed SPICE AND WOLF novels yeah! yeah! yeah! -Viz will have new japanese SF novels line . “It’s a Japanese science fiction imprint that is spearheaded by one of our editors here and is a wholly separate imprin read more
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Publishers set for Christmas rush
Gary William Murning Online | October 4th 2008 by Gary William Murning
“People who buy books only buy an average of seven books a year, and a lot of those are for Christmas,” said Mr Roberts. via BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Publishers set for Christmas rush. I think what Mr Roberts actually means is read more
Contest for Cheryl Kaye Tardif fans on Facebook
Cheryl Kaye Tardif Novels | October 4th 2008 by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
I just realized that I forgot to announce the winner of my last contest. I awarded one of my new fans on 'Cheryl Kaye Tardif novels' fan page with a gift bag valued at over $50.00.The winner was Mike Nicolai. Congrats, Mike!Thank you to two of the gi read more
Enough Asparagus
Very Short Novels | October 3rd 2008 by davidbdale
I feel as if I’d met you yesterday though it’s been thirty years and at my age that means I die tomorrow or at best the day after. So what shall we do this blue evening streaked with gray? If I’m to cook you one last dinner, I want to know youâ read more
Crucial writing step
Jack King: Making of a novelist | October 3rd 2008
Q: What’s the difference between a dream about writing and a publishable novel? A: Several months. Several months away from the book is how long it takes me to gain the necessary distance to clear my mind in order to determine the state of the no read more
I’m Being Published In Japanese…and on cell phones, too!
Stories Rule! | October 3rd 2008 by Tracy Cooper-Posey
The two books that Julia Templeton and I co-wrote under the pen name “Anastasia Black”, for Ellora’s Cave — Dangerous Beauty, and Forbidden – have been picked up by the big Japanese publisher, Softbank. The really intere read more
Ongoing Investigations: Case #013
Reverse Thieves | October 3rd 2008 by reverse thieves
I read the first two volumes of Gakuen Alice and much like the anime I love, love, love it! It is really funny but with enough sentimentality and plot to balance it out. It kind of reminds of a not-quite-as-insane-version of Kodacha with superpowers. read more
English literature - Black Hole CH-40 Who are you?
Novel Online - Zero : English Suspense, Thriller | October 3rd 2008 by Sunil Doiphode
This Month’s Winner of the Amazon Gift Certificate.
Stories Rule! | October 2nd 2008 by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Congratulations to Dina! For commenting here, you’ve won a $15 gift certificate for Amazon.com. Please contact me to arrange for delivery of your gift certificate, Dina. —– Don’t forget, this is a monthly draw. All you have read more
Oh for a One-Track Mind…
Writer On The Go | October 2nd 2008 by Jayda
 There are times when I think it’s a curse to be a prolific writer. At last count, I had six novels-in-progress. Although four of them are complete, I still term them novels-in-progress for the fact that if I start reading, I make changes. My hab read more
{misc} - where my planning got me
Insanity is contagious | October 2nd 2008 by D Kai Wilson
I’ve spent the last few days thinking about what I’m doing with my life in the next few years. I’m about to hit my big ‘planning for my five year project’ stage. Last five years was all about websites and servers - which read more
The Time Machine by H G Wells Book Review
Blog X | October 2nd 2008 by SirJorge
Another classic book in the can as I try to get the most out of the years I spent learning how to read. I thought this book would be a nice departure from some of the serious reading that have been doing, and since I’m not always doing science fict read more
{writing} - 50 novels!
Insanity is contagious | October 2nd 2008 by D Kai Wilson
I just finished inputting my novels into Liquid Story Binder. The count, as of this morning, including the three new ones, is 52 novels. 7 Glass block (and following) 4 for Harper, 5 for Roth (Darkness - 16). 4 for Souls Road, 5 for Black Monday, 3 m read more
Does Your Novel Have A Bestselling Title?
Midlist Writer | September 29th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
Print-on-demand publisher lulu.com has come up with an interesting Titlescorer to tell you if your title will get your novel onto the bestseller list. They hired a team of statisticians to analyze the titles of the past fifty years of the New York Ti read more
Where do book ideas come from
Jack King: Making of a novelist | September 28th 2008
Had to mingle among several hundred people this weekend, and yet again the question came back: Where do you get your ideas from? I think every writer will agree that it’s one of the most frequently asked questions. I answered it several times read more
Starting A New Novel
Midlist Writer | September 26th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
Last week I started a new novel. I actually started it on the plane from Missouri to England, figuring that crossing the ocean was an opportune time to start a new venture. So far it's been going slowly, partially because of paying nonfiction commitm read more
The Writing Loft Recap
Word Strumpet | September 25th 2008 by Charlotte Rains Dixon
I promised a run-down of the recent orientation weekend my partner Terry Price and I put together for the Writer's Loft, at MTSU in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Terry and I took over the program last March, (geez, it seems much longer... read more
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