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Penny Hancock

'The North', or my thoughts on back story

by Penny Hancock - January 25, 2012
There’s something mysterious about the signs on the motorway that say, simply ‘The North.’ They hint at a vague arctic otherworld, a magical tundra, icicles, snow sculpture. I’m driving to...
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Carol Rivers

A New Year and the connection between past and present...

by Carol Rivers - January 19, 2012
It's great to be finishing a book at the beginning of a New Year, knowing that very soon I will be submitting it to my editor. But I have very happy memories of October of 2011, when my last book IN...
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Medieval Murderers, The

Susanna Gregory writes

by Medieval Murderers, The - January 19, 2012
Carmarthen in the 1190s: a snapshot in time Writersare always being told to keep to what they know, so I decided to set myMedieval Murderers novellas in Carmarthen, thenearest town to where I live –...
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Joshua Graham

"Once We Were Kings" by Joshua Graham, writing Epic Fantasy as Ian Alexander hits #1 on two Amazon bestseller lists

by Joshua Graham - January 12, 2012
Joshua Graham's multiple award-winning epic fantasy novel Once We Were Kings (writting under the pen name Ian Alexander) hit #1 on two Amazon.com bestseller lists this week! Read about it here:...
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Gillian Royes

What the Christmas season means to an author

by Gillian Royes - December 28, 2011
It means time to write, time to eat, time to write, time to give and receive gifts, time to write, and -- somewhere in the middle -- time to remember what love or misery feels like.
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Authors Revealed
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Ronlyn Domingue

Ronlyn Domingue

Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
A. Believe in yourself and the story that wants to be told.
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Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni

Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Hard work trumps talent.
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Rhonda Pollero

Rhonda Pollero

Q. What do you regret most?
A. My stint as a dancing ketchup bottle outside a grocery store - can you say humiliation?
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Authors in the News
#1: Mark Twain's (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens's) "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 06, Chapter 1)
Zimbio, January 27, 2012
About Mark Twain
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Emperors of Dreams, By Mike Jay
The Independent, January 27, 2012
About Robert Stevenson
...it is "a rather brutal high" and that "the hangover can last for days." He suggests that Robert Louis Stevenson's account of Jekyll's transformation into Hyde "could almost have been lifted" from...
Young Reading Stars quiz Walcott
PremierLeague.com, January 26, 2012
About Arthur Doyle
...those watching as Walcott was grilled about his favourite reads by youngsters at the Gunners' Emirates Stadium. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes stories are currently on the reading...
Published authors share their thoughts on writing
Examiner.com, January 26, 2012
About Jack London
...and inspiration today. "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London "I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."...
Book roundup: 'Agent 6' and more mysteries/ thrillers
USA Today, January 25, 2012
About Tom Rob Smith
...USA TODAY Agent 6 Grand Central, 467 pp., $25.99 * * * out of four In 2008, Tom Rob Smith rocked crime novel fans with Child 44, an atmospheric thriller set in Stalin's Soviet Union. The lauded The...
Book roundup: 'Agent 6' and more mysteries/ thrillers
USA Today, January 25, 2012
About Howard Gordon
...The Informationist, The Innocent is, nevertheless, a provocative story about a woman's tortured soul. Hard Target By Howard Gordon St. Martin's, 274 pp., $25.99 * * * This second novel from the...
Authors from the Blogs
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Sheriff Byrd doesn’t need any armchair quarterbacks
Sun Herald, January 27, 2012
About Mark Twain
...sexual-orientation name-calling. Do not attack other commenters for their views. Spam is not welcome here. And finally, as Mark Twain said: "Always do right. This will gratify some people and...
Snow Whites to clash
Taranaki Daily News, January 27, 2012
About Brothers Grimm
...Snow White and the Huntsman, to nine weeks instead of 11. Relativity insists its PG-rated version of the Brothers Grimm story is a family comedy while Comcast Corp's Universal is marketing Huntsman...
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Cincinnati.com, January 27, 2012
About Jack London
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