Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
T.A. Pratt (a.k.a. Tim Pratt) is writing a series of four books. The first, Blood Engines, which is now followed up by Poison Sleep. You can read the previous review here or the first chapter of Blood Engines here.
Poison Sleep follow Pratt's character Marla Mason, the chief witch of the ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
previous entry -- part I
Authors will tell you that finding an idea is not the hard part - rather, working through the idea is the hardest part in writing a book or story.
Writing a book is a long, lonely, and arduous task. Some people have the ability to do this ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Dan Brown wrote Angels and Demons. This is not his first book, and for those who have been in a bookstore within the past year you know that he has a wickedly popular book that follows up Angels and Demons - dealing with the same principle character, a professor of ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Returning to the series of entries on writing, this week we are going to look at methods of working through the concept. In this case, we are going to continue looking at Cassandra West or the longer title, The Stories and Mis-Adventures of Cassandra West. In many cases, working with ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
J.K. Rowling is in the news.
Specifically, her publisher and, by extension, she, are trying to block the publication of a private encyclopedia of Potter-ness. As people should know, or if you don't, pull your head of out of the sand, J.K. Rowling is the author of the wickedly popular Harry ...
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