Tag: book
group name: bookcorps
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January 04, 2007 01:50 AM EST --
10 THINGS THAT HAVE CHANGED SINCE I SOLD MY NOVEL
A year ago today, something incredible happened to me. Let me set the scene: It was around eleven in the morning, and I was in my study . . .
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March 23, 2007 01:29 AM EDT --
One thing no one ever warned me about Gather is that it’s addictive. As soon as I returned from my book tour, I plunked my heavy suitcase in the hallway, and kissed my kids and my dogs and . . .
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March 08, 2008 04:15 PM EST --
Everyone who's a reader loves that anticipatory thrill of opening a new book, settling into the corner of your overstuffed sofa, clearing one's mind, and sinking into the first line, the opening . . .
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . .
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . .
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February 17, 2007 09:38 PM EST --
A child born in the streets of 18th century France, immediately discarded by its mother, sounds a first cry that both condemns his mother to death and . . .
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April 24, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
New York Times bestselling author, Debbie Macomber will be on Gather discussing her new book, Twenty Wishes , in the Book Review Group for the next month. She's written the 4 th story in the . . .
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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . .
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September 10, 2008 04:12 PM EDT --
I am, as you may know, a huge fan of digital books, what with their versatility, cost-effectiveness, and...erm...digitalness. But I am decidedly not a fan of people who take advantage of technology . . .
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October 22, 2007 12:48 AM EDT --
Every writer needs an editor. No exceptions! Just for starters, there are several stages of your writing in which you might need an editor to help:
* Clarify your concept
* Plan and organize your material . . .
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May 27, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
Last year I went to Book Expo America and carried home fifty pounds of advance copies that I read and reviewed from July to December. It was a really fun experience to consume the Fall Big Books before . . .
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August 20, 2007 02:28 PM EDT --
I began reading How Then Shall We Live: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives by Wayne Muller at the beginning of July. It challenged me to think about four simple questions. . . .
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July 27, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
I keep telling myself things have to change, things need organization, they just do among 50 thousand other things, but telling myself never really got anywhere.
I've written story after story, . . .
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August 13, 2007 05:15 PM EDT --
QUESTION: I self-published my novel with Xlibris last year, and it won awards at two book festivals. I was able to sell many books directly to readers during public appearances. Now I'd like to get . . .
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February 28, 2008 03:10 PM EST --
Before I picked up this book, as any parent, I thought I already had a lot of the answers. After all, I'd already survived one teenager.
From page one of Just Tell Me What to . . .
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April 29, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
Think you know Joan Crawford? Think again. I thought I knew Joan. I loved "Mommie Dearest" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" so I figured Peter Joseph Swanson's "The Joan . . .
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November 21, 2007 09:00 PM EST --
I have noticed the big promo for the new "Kindle" e-book reader, who could miss it! Jeff Bezos of Amazon is acting like this is the second coming and it's on the cover of Time magazine. . . .
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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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April 24, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
Anne Perry's books enthrall me like no others. I knew that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Serbia started WWI and that's about all I knew of that war until . . .
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February 29, 2008 05:19 PM EST --
Thank you to everyone who participated in the What Motivates You to Hit the Gym? Tell Us, and Win a Free Book! article! We all know how difficult it is to find the motivation for exercising so I know . . .
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