Turning Down the Screws

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” – Henry David Thoreau in a letter to Harrison Blake, November 16,

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Not Time to Party Yet!

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” ~ T. S. Eliot It’s official! This morning I signed a contract with Mango Publishing

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Why Bother?

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford Some days

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Troubles, Great and Small

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” – Thomas Carlyle What if agents don’t want my book? What if small

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The Only You

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people

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Learning to Sparkle

“Success rests in having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be.” – George Sheehan I recently discovered

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It’s Still Too Long

“All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary—it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.” – Somerset Maugham Shortly before Ed

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The Wolf in the Parlor

“Just exactly what is a wolf doing in my parlor?” Science journalist Jon Franklin spends nine interesting CDs (I listened to the audiobook) answering this question in the frame of

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An Accidental Athlete

“I have released myself from a life of sedentary confinement,” John Bingham explains in his easy-to-read, short-chaptered, motivational/inspirational memoir, AN ACCIDENTAL ATHLETE. Bingham has something of a cult following among

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Summer at Tiffany

SUMMER AT TIFFANY is a sweet, easy read about the self-proclaimed “best summer” of Marjorie Hart’s life. If you adore clothes, jewels and movie stars, you’ll love this book. These

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