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Deep Time: Targeting Another Galaxy by Centauri Dreams
Posted: 24 Jun 2014 09:04 AM PDT Interstellar flight isn’t about possibility as much as it is about time. We know we can launch a payload to another star if we’re willing to burn up enough millennia — about seventy — to get there in the form of a Voyager-style flyby. That’s with […]
17 Ways to Mess Up Your Murder Mystery
Originally posted on Ramona DeFelice Long:
Being an editor is a non-stop education. With every manuscript I read, I learn as much as I correct, suggest, or guide. After years of reading mysteries—from idea to first draft to revision to published book—I’ve learned to recognize flaws that can weaken an otherwise strong or promising draft.…
New Release Picks for the Week!
Originally posted on BookPeople:
HARDCOVER FICTION & NONFICTION Hell to Pay by Garry Disher Constable Paul Hirschhausen—”Hirsch”—is a recently demoted detective sent from Adelaide, Australia’s southernmost booming metropolis, to Tiverton, a one-road town in rustic, backwater “wool and wheat” country three hours north. Hirsch isn’t just a disgraced cop; the internal investigations bureau is still…
BIG NEWS: Texas Teen Book Festival to Feature Lauren Oliver!
Originally posted on BookPeople:
The second headliner has been announced, and y’all, this just keeps getting better. Lauren Oliver,author of the bestselling Delirium series, will come to the Texas Teen Book Festival as this year’s closing speaker! Creator of the Delirium series and Before I Fall, BookPeople’s own Meghan G. says that “Lauren Oliver has…
A Skeleton in the Family, by Leigh Perry
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
An unmarried woman with a teenage daughter lands a job at the local community college and moves back into her childhood home. Her parents are on an extended sabbatical, so the woman, Georgia Thackery, and daughter Madison are alone in the house… except for Sid the skeleton.…
Seven Random Facts About Me
Originally posted on Joanne Wadsworth:
The lovely Cd Brennan honored me with the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. She has two fabulous new adult romances available through Kensington Books, and if you’d like to check out her snazzy covers, pop on over to her website. Thank you Cd for thinking of me. In accepting, I am required to: Link…
WISPS OF TOMORROW BY K J ROLLINSON
Originally posted on MARSocial Author Business Enhancement Dragon Post:
The French historian, Fernand Braudel once coined the phrase ‘wisps of tomorrow’ referring to the fact that we generally ignore the future with our obsession with the present. I suppose one of the most famous quotations referring to ‘tomorrow’ is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. ‘To-morrow, and to-morrow,…
Let’s Head for the Mangroves…
Originally posted on margaret lynette sharp:
Let’s Head for the Mangroves… Let’s head for the mangroves… I can image this pair of Silver Gulls deciding on this course of action. Low tide reveals so much. Who knows what they will discover? Copyright ©
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