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My Five Favorite (?) Books
Recently a member of our group who shall remain anonymous (Marlon), challenged each of theBWS group members to consider our favorite books and to write something regarding our topfive picks.…
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Gil’s Top Five Fiction Works
It’s always interesting to see what works authors choose as their favorites
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Five Favorite Books from Marlon
It should be easy, right? I thought about the books I’ve read which have been thought-provoking,entertaining, and how much I hated for them to end. Then, I reflected on the…
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JC’s Top Five Favorite Books of All Time
We watch movies or television shows repeatedly. Even though many say: The book was waybetter than the movie.The answer is simple to me: there are just too many good books…
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Gordon’s Five Favorite Books (right now)
I read a lot and have ridiculously eclectic tastes, so trying to narrow it down to five favorite books is close to impossible. All I can say is that these…
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Thoughts on Banned Books
It’s October, and that means it my favorite time of year. The temperatures are (finally!) dropping, the leaves are changing, and that special, indescribable scent of autumn is in the…
Struck by Lightning
I often get asked if my characters are based on real people. Sometimes they are, at least in part;I’ve only rarely written a character with a single real person in…
The Dialogue
Besides being a writer, I’m also an artist and a musician. I make wheel-thrown pottery and claysculptures, and I’ve played the flute for over forty years, belonging to three different…
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Support Your Local Author
There’s a common misconception among readers—and among authors trying to break into the field—that an author makes good money and is even rich. There’s this image of us sitting in…
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Hit the Ground Running
There's a claim out there that if a work of fiction doesn't grab the reader on the first page, it never will. The whole "slow burn" approach to writing, which…
