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Author Joe Konrath maintains an excellent blog titled "A Newbie's Guide to Publishing". This week he posted a lengthy blog outlining the success he experienced in both the traditional publishing world and now in the digitital publishing world, and the why he is more successful now than he w...
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The midseason premiere is titled: The Suicide King. It made me want to commit suicide, so it is an apt title. Here is the entire episode synopsis: Daryl leaves without saying goodbye. Fifty minutes of lame dialogue that does absolutely nothing to move the story fo...
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Hello, Guys, my name is Jo-Anne Culley, I am an author and publisher of three books. I am new on this website, my main goal of being on this website is to connect with new people. This year has been very good for me, I wrote and published 3 books, (two at the ed of last year) Writing ...
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UNICORN WRITERS CONFERENCE WELCOMES MATTHEW PEARL TO CONNECTICUT On March 9, 2013, The Unicorn Writers Conference will host its fourth annual, full-day event. Co-chaired and co-founded by Redding resident and Literary Agent, Jan Kardys, The Conference, which will be held again at St. Cleme...
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Literary agent Laurie Abkemeier of DeFiore and Company offers a free iPhone and iPad app called "Agent Obvious". The app is elegant in it's simplicity - it delivers a tip a day that is most often a perfect little Zen nugget of insight from an industry insider. ( Afte...
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Dreams. There's the 'American Dream' which is the topic of many great novels and plays such as The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman. Then there are dreams, meaning aspirations or desires for the future (which I guess could be coupled with the idea of the American Dream). Lastly...
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“Blog; About I Don’t Know What”- B.M.Wilson Title: Amazing to scientist; No secret to the believers. Do you believe in the word “extinct?” or is it just an innocuous description used to explain why some fail to believe that the “exti...
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The latest episode of Revolution, titled "The Ties that Bind" should be called "The Writing that Grinds". In the first five minutes of the episode, "the gang" walks into a trap. The militia under the command of Strausser must be the elite squad, because they are all armed with modern combat...
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Since relaunching The Market List as a niche social network, we have seen some significant positive results. Perhaps the most positive is that our list of market and agents has grown significantly due to to better content management tools. Our original site was all custom coded and lacked m...
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Dissecting an episode of Revolution lazy plot flaw by lazy plot flaw. Okay, I want to be fair. Maybe ABC's Revolution is just good old fashioned formula television writing. But does that explain away some of the glaring plot flaws? The first example that the writers e...