Tag: fiction
group name: bookcorps
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November 07, 2009 10:44 AM EST --
Trying New Things
Linda Bilodeau is the author of Stepping Through Seagrass , The Wine Seekers and The Olive Branch- A Tale of Resistance. She is a student in the MFA program . . .
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March 22, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
Just when I need you all so damn much.
I'm soldiering on as best I can, taking care of the children, the house, bills, work.
Mother's off her meds again; . . .
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March 24, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
The refrigerator hums along in middle C.
As I was slicing an onion, I cut myself; my blood oozed and became a rivulet; the juice ran to the cut like maggots debriding a wound.
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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 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . .
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July 06, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
Horatio Hornblower is the ideal action hero, a character created by talented British author C.S. Forester, who also wrote The African Queen. Hornblower is a man subject to the same anxieties and doubts . . .
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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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March 10, 2007 08:54 PM EST --
Have you ever heard of Donald McCaig? He raises sheep and trains sheepdogs in rural Highland County, Virginia. At long intervals, five or six years apart, he will turn out a finely crafted historical . . .
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June 03, 2007 11:46 PM EDT --
A first time novelist’s first time at the show (originally published on my website at www.duskbeforethedawn.net)
I went to BEA (and took my wife and son) for many reasons:
My first book (Dusk Before . . .
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April 24, 2009 03:46 PM EDT --
Tragic story out of Arkansas this week about non-fiction author David McElyea, who committed suicide on Wednesday in a Wal-Mart in Fayetteville. Author of " When Money Grows On Trees ," . . .
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June 19, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
A spirited professional with hair as big as her heart, Stephanie Plum is back in Janet Evanovich's latest misadventure in bounty hunting, Lean Mean Thirteen. The bail bonds office of Plum's cousin . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:30 PM EDT --
Dear Readers and Gatherers: If you're looking for my novel, White Lies , it's not the romance novel on the best seller list (fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it.) Better . . .
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April 26, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
I just finished reading a book that had to be savored. I just have to share it with you! It makes me sad to think how few people are going to read this novel. It is so far superior to most of what has . . .
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September 08, 2007 11:38 AM EDT --
Okay, John Stanford probably wasn't talking to writers when he revealed his secret to success.
He probably wasn't thinking about how to create unforgettable charcters, or how to make your screenplay . . .
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June 26, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
Let this be a lesson to me. I really thought I knew what to expect when I picked up Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). After all, when it came out five years ago, . . .
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April 02, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
What is it that makes a story timeless? The answer to this question is definitely a potential moneymaker for a fiction writer, because timelessness is a characteristic of many . . .
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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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September 27, 2008 02:28 PM EDT --
Simple Shorts are short fictional stories or blurbs. It seems to be the only coherent way I can write right now so eventually these stories will be pieces of the master story I intended them for.
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August 20, 2007 01:02 AM EDT --
It was 7 p.m. and Ben stood under the street lamp, waiting for the last train home. His hands trembled as he read the cracked, yellowed pages of the last letter he'd written Alison, ten years earlier. . . .
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