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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Book Review: Nerd Do Well – Simon Pegg
The point where I realize that my book review format is definitely skewed towards fiction and decide to ignore it and keep the format anyway. Author Simon Pegg Title: Nerd Do Well Pages: 368 Formats: Trade Paper, Kindle, Audio Book Availability: Amazon Website: Peggster … Continue reading
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Book Review – Working for Bigfoot
Author: Jim Butcher Title: Working for Bigfoot Pages: 163 Formats: Hardback, Paperback, Kindle, Audio Book Availability: Amazon Website: Jim Butcher Book Blurb: Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here. But … Continue reading
Welcome to the insanity that is: NaNoWriMo
It’s that time of year again: friends vanish for long stretches of time and start obsessing about word counts and write-ins, all in the name of NaNoWriMo. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, November is National Novel … Continue reading
Book Review: Accidental Alchemist
In honor of today’s author’s book launch announcement (the Masquerading Magician… book two in the series being available in January) and pre-sale kick off – I’m posting this book review a little early) Author: Gigi Pandian Title: The Accidental Alchemist … Continue reading
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Story: Count Down
This story first appeared yesterday for Siobhan Muir’s Thursday’s Threads. A slightly longer, better edited version follows: Staring anxiously at the timer, Beth let her breath out slowly. “The clock is running out,” she said in a husky whisper, as if … Continue reading
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Book Review – A Man of Character
Author: Margaret Locke Title: A Man of Character Pages: 334 Pages Formats: Kindle, paperback Availability: Amazon, B&N Website: http://margaretlocke.com/ Book Blurb What would you do if you discovered the men you were dating were fictional characters you’d created long ago? Thirty-five-year-old … Continue reading
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Windows 10 – One feature that makes it worthwhile
When I’m not writing, or writing about writing… I’m a software developer with enough slashes after it to cover all things software, and more than a few hardware oriented geekly tasks. It means wearing a lot of different hats, and … Continue reading
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Anatomy of an edit: Less might not be more, but sometimes it’s better
This week’s Flash Friday prompt inspiration was “Pilgrim’s Progress” and the Elements that were given almost wrote the story in my head… only with 100 words +/- 1.. I had my work cut out for me. The first draft started out nicely: Good … Continue reading →