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The Musical Water Maidens
Originally posted on Tribalmystic Stories:
Huntington Post Photo It is not often that you find musicians using nature to aid in their musical performances. In the Melanesian culture, a rare tradition passed down from generation to generation of women still lives on. Lakes, rivers or the sea water is used as a percussion in this…
Colleen McCullough
Originally posted on Jo Robinson:
Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds died at the age of seventy seven on the 29th January. The Australian wrote this as part of their obituary: “Australia’s bestselling author was a charmer. Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth.” Pardon? Use…
…Author pal, Tim Taylor lets me play on his blog today…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…good pal, Tim Taylor has allowed me to play today over on his excellent blog page, http://www.tetaylor.co.uk/#!blog/c1pz … …yeez can read all about it here: 2 Feb Welcome, Seumas! A guest post today from thriller writer Seumas Gallacher, who tells us in his unique style why, after successfully self-publishing several novels, he has joined Crooked Cat. He…
Is The Super Bowl Over?
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
Why Aren’t We Done With Professional Football? Congratulations to [insert corporation-masquerading-as-a-team name here] for winning the Super Bowl™! Now that you’ve got some time off, perhaps you’ll want to spend some of it reflecting. Okay, maybe reflection is not your strong suit. We’ll start you off with some topics: domestic violence, best practices…
More literary insults…and this time it’s personal
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
A harsh review got an equally harsh retort this week, not from the author (authors are always told to keep quiet about bad reviews), but a clearly angry man who had helped to propel the novel into the international limelight . The book is Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road…
Author Quotes – Stephen King
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
Stephen King is best known as a writer of horror and supernatural fantasy whose books have sold over 300 million copies. He is also a political activist, advocate for other writers and free speech and the author of On Writing, considered among the best modern memoirs/guides on the writing life…
…the LUV of this fabulous WURLD-wide diaspora of authors on the net…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoXcRw9gJCA …a universal truth, ‘no man is an island’… neither is any woman… and may I posit particularly, neither is any man or woman who quill-scrapes for a living… the image of the writer ensconced in the virtual candle-lit garret is not so distant from the day-to-day reality of trying…
The Final Episode of The Wolfcat Chronicles and Some Other Stuff
Originally posted on The One & Only Elgon:
Yesterday I began working on Book Ten of The Wolfcat Chronicles. I’ll not call this a revision because I’ll be extensively rewriting the book, most of the changes coming in the last third to a half of the story. But already I have changed a couple of…
Ronovan Writes Week In Review
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
In case you missed something from this week, here they all are. Hope you find something you enjoy. POETRY Bruised Heart-A Haiku BLOGGING TIP Blogging Personality: The Key to Success. RONOVAN’S RANDOMS Ronovan Writes Weekend Mick Flick. Do you feel Serendipity this week? Depression, Understanding, and Finding Peace. ? Maybe more next week, Ronovan…
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