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The Colors of Extraterrestrial Life ***** Posted From Centauri Dreams
Posted: 17 Mar 2015 06:07 AM PDT One of these days we’ll have the instruments in place to examine light from a terrestrial-class world around another star. This opens up the possibility of identifying atmospheric gases like oxygen, ozone, carbon dioxide and methane. All of these can occur in an atmosphere in the absence of […]
3 Secrets to School Visit Success
Originally posted on WRITERS' RUMPUS:
Schools visits are magical…most of the time. My very first school visit started with technology issues. After struggling for half an hour, I decided to give my presentation without slides. At that point, of course, the presentation suddenly started working! Talk about stressful. But in the end, it’s your connection with…
5 Reasons Every Independent Author Should Have a Website
Originally posted on AnitaLovett.com:
In our ongoing content creation series, we’ve covered the basics of planning a content strategy in detail. You’ve probably noticed that unlike many of the copywriting agencies on the Internet, we’ve touched on how each element of content creation applies in principle to independent authors. One of the questions we…
Waiting On Wednesday: Half Wild by Sally Green (#7)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Breaking the Spine Title: Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy #2) Author: Sally Green Expected publication: March 24th 2015 by Viking Juvenile Page: 400 Summary: In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son…
Sea of Destiny – Part 33 by Dellani Oakes
Originally posted on Indigo Sea Press Blog:
Dr. West isn’t convinced that Kyle is legitimately interested in Emily. He fears that Kyle is just after her money, much like her ex-husband was. “Mr. Scott, you’ve convinced me and I don’t convince easily. Maybe you are the right one to go. I’ll set it up.” “Can…
No-brainer – by Author Ailsa Abraham
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
No-brainer Thank you so much for letting me come back to babble at you, Ape. The chimps are taking good care of me so I’ll just sit here and witter on about writing while you finish off the peanut banana cake I brought, eh? Ask…
…new… University crash courses in Author-ology and Blogger-ology…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…today, I’ve sent a whoosh of messages to the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Boards of Governors recommending the addition of new, eclectic courses of education to reflect the reality of modern day publishing… the WURLD is changing, and no more rapidly than in the fields of scribbling endeavour… if the…
Guest Post: Multi-touch iBooks and ‘The Sword of Air’ by R.J. Madigan
Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
I was so intrigued by R.J. Madigan’s experimentation with new innovations in iBook formatting that I requested a Guest Post about the subject for my own blog as I believe this will be of interest to many of my readers, as well. The Sword of Air – Punk…
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