Tag: novel
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July 25, 2009 10:58 AM EDT --
The Pillars of the Earth is a huge historical novel by Ken Follett. It's about the building of a cathedral in England in the 12th century.
I usually love stories about this time. That's when . . .
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August 25, 2009 05:42 PM EDT --
My new Arthurian novel Merlin's Charge is now out at B&N. If you type in the title, the first thing that shows up is:
Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Television Series
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May 27, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
Readers who enjoy metafiction , fiction that is about storytelling itself, will have more than a little fun pondering Charles Baxter's newest novel. This is not his first book . . .
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August 28, 2008 06:24 PM EDT --
Today, a nice lady emailed me to say her copy of The Joan Crawford Murders arrived in the mail but she wouldn't be able to find time to start reading it until next Friday. Then a few hours . . .
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January 03, 2008 01:05 PM EST --
Minnette Meador is an author to start watching. This year she'll have a boatload of books out. I'm going to ask her about her first release for 2008. . . .
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October 01, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
Or are you just going to be a droopy drawers over your hobo beans eaten right out of the can, warmed up on a burning phone book. You could go to Hollywood and try and be a star. Or you . . .
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June 17, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
Jane Kirkpatrick had family history to inspire her new novel, A Flickering Light , she recently told MPR arts reporter Euan Kerr. The book tells the story of her grandmother, Jessie Gaebele, as a photographer . . .
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October 15, 2008 10:18 AM EDT --
Here's the first scene from my new novel Bad Movies (the third novel in my Tinseltown Trilogy). If you see a typo, avert your eyes, this comes from my original word file (I can't pull . . .
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August 19, 2009 12:51 PM EDT --
I just noticed over at Amazon that my Arthurian novel Merlin's Charge (from Stone Garden Publishing, not a vanity press, but I am vain) is already up there and it can be ordered NOW. Its release . . .
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July 11, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
Most of After the Floods is set in the fictional town of Cold Beak Minnesota, desolate from a flood. In these pages, Pete moves to Cold Beak from the Iron Range after the death of his wife.
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October 15, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
Stone Garden Publishing is not a "vanity press" but I do the covers for my own books, and the boss likes them enough that he also sends me some other author's novels to do . . .
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July 01, 2008 09:42 PM EDT --
(Author's note: This piece was originally published in The Rake magazine in Minneapolis. )
I lived in Minneapolis for a few years, some years ago, and during that time I came to love the town . . .
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May 22, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
Did you follow the "First Chapters" writing contest here on Gather? The Duke of Shadows is the book and Meredith McGuire is the winner of Gather's First Chapters Romance Writing . . .
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October 12, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
After reading Barbary Chaapel's wonderful piece on Stella Vanilla, I thought I'd post this short chapter from After the Floods . Early in the novel, Smoky becomes a stray thanks to the ravages . . .
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August 24, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
Did you write a book? Have a longer story that isn't getting the reads you want? Give us the first paragraph and a link. Can You hook us into reading more?
This is inspired by Aaron LaZaar's . . .
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July 16, 2008 11:54 PM EDT --
I just want to go over what I accomplished in my writing world. On Tuesday night I had my writing habit class at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. One suggestion that hit home was not write before . . .
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May 15, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
...Continued from "Introducing: My Sony® Reader!"
Shortly after my Sony® Reader arrived I had unexpected visitors. My sister helped herself to a cup of coffee as usual and my brother . . .
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January 07, 2008 05:36 PM EST --
Here are passages from a review of Duluth, MN novelist Bruce Henricksen's After the Floods:
"The opening paragraphs of After the Floods, in which George and Ruby Corvus make observations . . .
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August 27, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
Brazil , by Gather member Errol Lincoln Uys, is the epic saga of a nation I knew little about until I got sucked into its history by this master story-teller. Not only is it a "vast novel to . . .
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August 24, 2007 06:28 AM EDT --
After thirty years of being happily married to the same wonderful person and 111 kid-years of being a parent of six practically perfect children, few things phase me anymore. I thought I had pretty . . .
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