Tag: books
group name: writing
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June 19, 2009 10:23 AM EDT --
I know I have previously mentioned the importance of reading as a way to improve one’s writing. I think most writers are strong readers, but it can be difficult at times . . .
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October 12, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Man, I hated going to parent teacher conferences
As if I were unaware of my love of the easy way out
my preference for the gently sloping downward path
My parents weren't hearing anything new either . . .
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May 13, 2008 04:17 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, facts," said Tilda. "None of this storybook crap for me." She dropped her cigarette, and crushed it with her shoe
"Stories . . .
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December 03, 2007 11:28 PM EST --
As you create your first novel provide
the current month you began writing in the
opening sentence so you won't . . .
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October 21, 2008 04:47 PM EDT --
What's your all-time favorite fiction book?
Maybe it's one you read as a child, or one you received as a gift from someone special. Or maybe it's just a great story.
Please share . . .
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July 12, 2007 12:02 PM EDT --
Beginning next month, HarperCollins will be featuring the best of their nonfiction books and authors in the new group Great Reads on Gather. Great Reads will introduce you to at least two new authors each . . .
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May 03, 2008 08:43 AM EDT --
The author, reading at an Author's Tea on April 19th, 2008 in Dansville, NY
(photo courtesy of Clarence Stephens, Jr. 2008)
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This piece was first published in the Great Mysteries . . .
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October 04, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
I must confessed I have a new addiction, or shall I say, I’m having a relapse. I used to read romance novels almost non-stop when I was younger, and abandoned it when I got older, settling . . .
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August 15, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
In Sonata NOTE: This is another piece of writing by David Parks, the author of 'God's Living Postcards'. It briefly captures his writing style. I think it's . . .
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March 05, 2008 12:03 PM EST --
When does fact trespass into fiction? I don't know. I can't vouch for every word in a memoir I wrote several years ago.
In "Escape From Mount Moriah," 18 sketches of what it means . . .
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March 11, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
Babies and Books
Or, How I went from being a single, childless actress in Hollywood to a married, momma writer in NY in less than seven years.
08/15/2001
A former editor from Putnam hears . . .
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June 16, 2007 06:58 AM EDT --
Good morning, dear writers.
I rose at 5:30 this morning to greet this auspicious occasion . . .
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October 05, 2007 12:05 AM EDT --
Don’t worry! Ed’s not leaving Gather. But it is with a heavy heart that I let you know that, due to other responsibilities, Ed will be stepping down as a Member Editor in the Writing . . .
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October 01, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
You gotta love 'em.
Saturday, I marched into the bookstore, my poster under one arm, a tote bag of books and pencils and bookmarks and cocoa packets in the other arm and announced to the . . .
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November 08, 2007 05:17 PM EST --
I'm excited to welcome authors Dave and Lillian Brummet to Gather today. Thank you for stopping by to discuss your latest book, PURPLE SNOWFLAKE MARKETING. You also have your . . .
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . .
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September 01, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
I don’t know about you, but my hotmail is full of unread e-mails, ditto on my Yahoo, my gather box is also full of requests to read others stories, and my eyes are blurring because I have read the . . .
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August 06, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
I have been published in several different areas. I write for my local newspaper so it is nice to see my name in print. I wrote three stories about parenting multiple children( I have twins!!!!). And where . . .
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June 21, 2007 05:16 PM EDT --
Dean Koontz wanted "to write a story with a runaway-train pace, involving mistaken identity." The result? Another New York Times best seller titled The Good Guy. Dean recently . . .
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February 12, 2007 10:00 AM EST --
By Jill Conner Browne with Karin Gillespie
I have to get straight to the point. I was disappointed.
To be fair I LOVE the Sweet Potato series. I laughed out loud reading Jill’s . . .
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