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32 days ago by ronkaplan

The Chicago Tribune ran this profile of Paretsky, creator of popular character V.I. Warshawski, and how she incorporates baseball and the Cubbies in her books. She wrote about Chicago’s unique brand of softball in one of her books.

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32 days ago

American Marilynne Robinson has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The US author beat five other writers to take the 30,000 pound prize during a ceremony at London's Royal Festival Hall, on Wednesday. The award, which recognises the work of fiction writ ...

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58 days ago by Adam Langfeld

Harvest of Souls by Michael Wayne takes place in a small town in Minnesota. Jeremy is a typical high school kid who doesn’t quite fit in and gets teased and picked on by the popular crowd. For years he has had a secret crush on Tori, who happens to be the girlfriend of Ben, the high school football ...

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90 days ago by Robin

The author lists this book as a stand alone title, but it could also be read as part of the Cody Gunner Series since many of the characters from the series are mentioned in this book. A detail in This Side of Heaven actually hit me by surprise. Each time I read one of Karen's books, I feel challenge ...

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97 days ago by stikmanz

The official plan for The Hidden Lands of Nod calls for two more novels following Sleeper Awakes. Next in the schedule will be book four, Rataxes, the General, to be followed by the fifth book, Another Noon. At the moment, these books exist primarily as outlines and sketches, although I have begun a ...

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107 days ago by glintsoflight

From The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth: [I]f [the author] makes [his readers] well — that is, makes them see what they have never een before, moves them into a new order of perception and experience altogether — he finds his reward in the peers he has created. [...]

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124 days ago by beanstew

heyyyyy so check out me being creative and writing and stuff on the tab over there => or above called me:writing. i’m going to try and add some stuff…

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150 days ago by Nicholas

I began a new creative project with a friend today. We’re going to write a short series of dramatic episodes for the web. I’ve already done a draft of the outline of the first season and he’s working on the first episode.I need to focus my creative energy. It’s also so spread out. But with my new mo ...

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150 days ago

Damon Dark uses a Galactic Alliance Battle Shuttle, “The Intrepid” to search for a missing Space Shuttle and runs into an old enemy…and that’s not the only peril in orbit for Damon Dark. Another Space Shuttle is soon turned into a deadly trap for him. It seems outer space is now the battle field for ...

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160 days ago by princerazor

28 Mike had made a plan by himself that he will leave three cars following Nick but also he will get a helicopter and a wagon with guards in it so he can use it in case of emergency. On the helicopter, there would be a monogram of some Agriculture Manufactures Company. Mike knew that helicopters lik ...