Snows of Inspiration
It’s been snowing this week in typically rainy Seattle—big, juicy white flakes you can catch on your tongue. Here in the northwest we are not used to measuring snow with a yardstick. I’m not even...
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Authors
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MEET THE AUTHOR
In this video, Nene Leakes, the star of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta reveals the reason her book is called Never Make the Same Mistake Twice, dishes on the bittersweet nature of being on the show, and her goal now that she has won an A-List Award.
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Author Voices
A Girl Reading: Simone Martini’s Annunciation
Nearly 800 years ago, in the 13th century, the Italian city state of Siena was under threat of attack by its powerful neighbour, the city of Florence. The Florentines intended to take Siena by force,...
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Making Dear Me
“Easy,” I thought, in December 2009, when I
set out on the task of compiling the new edition of Dear Me, A Letter
To My Sixteen Year Old Self. I had an agreement from JK Rowling to write
the...
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"Once We Were Kings" by Joshua Graham, writing Epic Fantasy as Ian Alexander hits #1 on two Amazon bestseller lists
Joshua Graham's multiple award-winning epic fantasy novel Once We Were Kings (writting under the pen name Ian Alexander) hit #1 on two Amazon.com bestseller lists this week!
Read about it here:...
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Is It About A Bicycle?
Yes it is. At least part of it is. A percentage, certainly. I’ve just come back from the Cathedral Quarter’s Out to Lunch Festival at the Black Box in Belfast where Stephen Rea, with musical...
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Authors Revealed
Rhonda Pollero
Q. What do you regret most?
A. My stint as a dancing ketchup bottle outside a grocery store - can you say humiliation?
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Sarah KilBride
Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
A. Stop, look and listen!
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Tiffany Trent
Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. It's a Pageant of the Bizarre.
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Authors in the News
Radio Prague, January 28, 2012
...walk, taking my reading - Carl Gustav Jung's book about the "inner child" - with me - God knows why. I strolled around places I know, and all of a sudden I was at a playground - there were some...
Yahoo! News, January 28, 2012
...Best Selling Author Jennifer Nicole Lee recently presented a key note speech at the LPG Power Summit held by one of the world's biggest leaders in wellness and non-surgical beauty, Daniele Henkel...
Inside Bay Area, January 28, 2012
...Open-government advocate Clay Johnson cofounded Blue State Digital, a firm that engineered Barack Obama's 2008 online presidential campaign. But after years in Washington, D.C., Johnson, now 34,...
Boston Globe, January 28, 2012
...Christensen has helped LaRoche create television specials for PBS, and has also produced concerts for various artists including Joan Baez and Grand Funk Railroad at venues around Massachusetts.Though...
Silver City Sun-News, January 28, 2012
...a child a book, or discover something new on the computers in the computer room. Bayard Mayor Charles Kelly addressed the crowd, thanking everyone for their support, from sponsors, to the late Sen....
Mail Online UK, January 28, 2012
...been far more blatant cases that have been taken to court and people were found not guilty. 'I'm not saying it's legal, but all sorts of things are illegal. It's a question of whether it's in the...
Pepperdine University Graphic, January 28, 2012
...policies for intellectual property of course content, including ownership of lectures, exams, handouts, PowerPoints, etc. Technically, under state common law and federal copyright law, classmates...
Authors from the Blogs
WDSU New Orleans, January 28, 2012
...Where: New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana Officials: #42 Eric Lewis, #29 Mark Lindsay, #13 Monty McCutchen Attendance: 16176 Carl Landry paced a balanced attack with 17 points off the bench as...
Miami Herald, January 28, 2012
...melodramatic and sometimes implausible entertainment, the best studio movie in a long time. It follows the tradition of Jack London's man vs. nature survival stories, where hope is as fragile as a...
Weekly Standard, January 28, 2012
...umbrella—I listen with pleasure and interest, but not without reservations, to CUNY professor Hildegard Hoeller’s lecture on “Edith Wharton: Old and New New York.” Her ambitious talk...
Syracuse Online, January 28, 2012
...Against Girls," by Bonnie Burton • "The Misfits," "Addie on the Inside" and "Totally Joe" by James Howe In Skaneateles, too, most of the pieces are in place, and the district is working on those...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 28, 2012
...the siblings dance and sing, then get a massive scolding from mom (not the evil step-mom of the Brothers Grimm tale). Soon they are traipsing through the woods before getting freaked out and lost at...
Beauregard Daily News, January 28, 2012
...without adequate thought or conviction quickly die on the vine. Old habits are hard to break. In 1989, Stephen R. Covey published his seminal self-help book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective...
My Life in 8 Words
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Chris Bohjalian "Spectacularly blessed -- though still challenged by my iPhone" -
Thomas Fahy "Eight words? How can I describe life in --" -
Thomas Leveritt "Running off in all directions at once." -
Jacob Osborn "An eager, restless, ongoing search for new experiences." -
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor "Fulfilling, intense, consuming, organized, poignant, messy, worrisome, spiritual" -
Linda Nieves-Powell "Hectic, exciting, stressful, fun, boring, impossible, full, magical" -
Julie Morgenstern "Full of adventure, amazing people and good fortune" -
Jessica Burkhart "Write, lip gloss, sun, gossip, vanilla cappuccino" -
Harry Kraus "Child of GRACE, father, husband, author, surgeon, visionary" -
Lola Schaefer "Enjoy each day with tea, dancing, and friends." -
Harold Holzer ""Work, work, work is the main thing:" Lincoln" -
Laurel A. Neme "writer, mom, compassionate, happy, crazy, full of wonder" -
Jacquelin Thomas "Blessed to be loved and alive" -
Nova Ren Suma "Doors open, doors close. Doors close, doors open." -
Dan Gutman "I try to make people--and myself--happy." -
Jeffrey Brown "father, midwest, cartoonist, books, music, love, family, cats"
