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October 14, 2008 06:09 PM EDT --
Today I received my advance autographed copy of The Devil Can Wait by Marta Stephens. Marta is also a member of the Gather community. This is the second book her in a series of Sam Harper . . .
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July 12, 2008 06:00 PM EDT --
I was first drawn to this book because of the title. I think sometimes we would all like to say "drop dead" or worse to our neighbor. But I found that this book is about so much more than . . .
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July 19, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
The Smart One is a book that I found hard to get into. I had read nearly half of it before I finally started enjoying it. It seemed dull up until that point. Once I got into the story, it . . .
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June 07, 2007 05:10 PM EDT --
So they asked me to tell you why I wrote The Good Guy, which is not as easy to explain as, say, why the last car I bought was a Ford.
I wanted to write a story with a runaway-train pace, involving . . .
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April 15, 2008 06:00 PM EDT --
Harper Collins is giving you a chance to win a copy of The End of an Error by Mameve Medwed! You could win a copy by signing up for Mameve's AuthorTracket. It will keep you up to date on her tour . . .
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May 02, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
Sometimes I feel like I am on a hill all alone with just me and my problems there. Do you know what I mean? Each stage of my life has presented many challenges but I think the time that my daughters . . .
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January 21, 2009 04:26 PM EST --
I am sure many of you know Aaron Lazar, (author of LeGarde Mysteries) . He is a regular writer on the Gather Writing Essential group. He submitted a post back in December . . .
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February 27, 2008 01:04 PM EST --
This month in Fiction Readers we featured books on a woman seeking revenge, a teenager on the edge, and finding the perfect man. You've had a chance to learn about these Fiction titles, now find . . .
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June 25, 2008 11:29 PM EDT --
I have read every single one of Chuck Palahniuk's books, with my favorite being Invisible Monsters . His last novel, Rant , was so twisted and incredible that I have recommended it to many people. . . .
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February 25, 2008 05:31 PM EST --
Hey y'all,
Okay, one answer to that question is: about 300 pages. Yes, I love corny jokes! My all-time favorite is, "Don't call me late to dinner." But seriously, after seeing . . .
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April 01, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Years ago I was having lunch with my good friend Jim Brooks, the brilliant three-time Oscar and nineteen-time Emmy Award–winning director and writer. We get together a few times . . .
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March 18, 2009 11:16 AM EDT --
hi friends! what a lovely spring this is - or WILL be! we recently had a wonderful interview on our travel site with our good friend barbary chaapel, about her sailing book, journey of the snow goose . . .
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November 26, 2007 07:16 PM EST --
For almost a decade, I wanted to write a novel with dog-rescue as the background, using the title THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR.
Many thousands of people do volunteer work for . . .
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May 14, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
First, thank you to all here for the warm welcome to Gather.com. What a wonderful place.
Second, here is my friend's book! It is called "Entheos . How to Find Enthusiam for Life Through . . .
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November 02, 2008 08:03 PM EST --
"A Silent Ocean Away" will take the reader back in time to the year 1833. This time period offers a backdrop to the book that adds excitement to the characters lives. It is about pride, greed, . . .
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June 11, 2009 08:22 PM EDT --
Ticket to Tomorrow is the first book I have ever read by the author Carol Cox. The first in a series of "A Fair To Remember" is a romance mystery. Author Carol Cox loves history . . .
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May 30, 2007 02:45 PM EDT --
Book lovers still reeling from cutbacks at newspaper book sections have a new reason to be upset: Amazon.com is reducing space for book reviews too.
Amazon is cutting the number of book reviews displayed . . .
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February 14, 2008 02:42 PM EST --
Even though I moved away from South Louisiana a long time ago, I think a part of me stayed! Though I guess here on the internet, we can be anywhere we want, can't we? So while you're visiting . . .
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February 28, 2008 10:26 AM EST --
Boomers are the dominant generation in America. Their values and aspirations set the tone for everyone. Yankelovich actually coined the term "Baby Boomer" back in the late 1960s, when they first . . .
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March 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
'Write what you know.' Everybody—especially writers—have heard this adage. So why do I always find myself writing about sisters (I have three brothers), old houses . . .
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