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After Fifty Rejections What Are We To Do With Our
You just spent two years writing a novel, explored the annals of your memory, took out every book in the library to properly research the subject and even spent the family’s vacation money, denying them weeks on Hawaii’s big island, so you could fully incorporate your heritage on......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-14 18:40:54 | Rating:

| Views: 19 | Comments: 0 | Tags: self publishing mainstream publishing book promotion

Introducing MANBABY service
I have been called a babbling recluse, and I deny the accusation. But that falsehood is beside the point. I had on a recent occasion the misfortune to pick up a squirming bundle of flesh while it flailed its appendages at me. Upon closer examination, I noted the creature manifesting......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-04 16:47:36 | Rating:

| Views: 55 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Manbaby creature creators New York Philadelphia Daughters luminaries

So You Want to be a Novelist. . .
So you want to be a novelist; allow me to strike a match for you. Before igniting the fire that must burn within you for a year, there are components of the process you should take into consideration. They are, not necessary in order of importance: protagonist (s), antagonist (s), genre,......Read More

Posted on: 2008-04-17 19:03:35 | Rating:

| Views: 82 | Comments: 2 | Tags: start a novel POD agents publishers novelist protagonist (s) antagonist (s) genre research plot theme conflict viewpoint outline starting point setting exposition description and rewr

Zingers
Medical Zinger One What makes socialized medicine so terrible? It is terrible for the insurance companies who deny applicants access and reap huge profits in the doing. It is terrible for the HMOs who keep profits high by denying treatment to members. It is terrible for the......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-19 10:47:51 | Rating:

| Views: 99 | Comments: 0 | Tags: socialized medicine national health care uninsured

Giving up my Subaru will be like giving up Lassie
I live where it snows, and I drive a Subaru that averages 25 mpg. I use to think that was pretty good for a 4 cylinder, all-wheel drive vehicle, but now I am having second thoughts. This is my thinking: escalating gas and diesel fuel prices fluctuate between $3 to 3.50 a......Read More

Posted on: 2007-08-15 11:18:46 | Rating:

| Views: 102 | Comments: 2 | Tags: environment oil terrorists gasoline

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