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Liz Garton Scanlon: Fear No Difference
Originally posted on BookPeople:
Guest Post by Austin Author Liz Garton Scanlon This is the third week in a series of author guest posts about diversity in children’s literature and the BookPeople Modern First Library initiative. For more about BookPeople’s Modern First Library initiative, and for more recommendations of wonderful new and classic picture books…
Next Manga – Bible Stories Told With the Movement and Might Of Manga
Originally posted on Joe's Geek Fest:
The phrase “think outside of the box” or, popularized by Apple “think different[ly] [corrected English mine], have been heard so often that they are now cliché. Nonetheless, it remains relatively rare and difficult to break out of our thought patterns. Whoever thought of using Japanese manga (stylized Japanese cartoon) to…
Copyright Infringement: A Warning to all Authors
Originally posted on blindoggbooks:
I would like to share a letter sent to me by a fellow independent author, who wishes to remain anonymous, about a website claiming to be promoting independent authors, when in reality it appears that they are offering free downloads of the work of dozens of us. If you are an…
Reading Joseph Mitchell, Wodehouse, and Pedro de Castaneda
Originally posted on The New Psalmanazar:
* Joe Gould’s Secret, Joseph Mitchell I don’t know if people were simply more gullible in the New York City of the nineteen-forties and fifties or if my easy cynicism has finally paid off in actual enlightenment, but I guessed Joe Gould’s “secret” long before the author himself discovered…
Excerpt from Beyond the Realm of Night
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Here’s the start of chapter two of Beyond the realm of Night. Won’t be long now. i’m just fiddling with it. Can’t bring myself to start the horror of formatting. Gunnar Creutz, Falbygdens museum On the far side of the Great River, a pack of wolfmen scuttled backwards and…
Free Book Alert! This weekend only, The WorldMight is FREE!!!!!
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
FREE BOOK ALERT! FREE BOOK ALERT! Hello everyone, I have some GREAT news. Yeah, it’s a FREE BOOK! The heading up there might have given it away. I love free books. ? I know you remember Cyril Bussiere, author of The WorldMight who I interviewed not long ago. Well guess what.…
This Old Home Prompt On the Community Story Board
Originally posted on readful things blog:
http://neverendingstorydepository.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/a-writing-challenge-this-old-home/ If you haven’t seen the prompt on the Community Story Board yet, here is your chance to give us your best. Click the link above to find out all the details:) ? Entries must be in by the 26th of July!
SETI: The Pollution Factor Posted From Centauri Dreams
Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:43 AM PDT We tend to assume that our mistakes as a species flag us as immature, a young civilization blundering about with tools it is misusing on a course that may lead to extinction. But assume for a moment that an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization goes through phases more […]
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 