Tag: fiction
group name: borders
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March 05, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
I am very excited at the thought of being in a chatroom, of sorts, with readers. They always say that writing is a lonely business, and in a way that's quite true.
It's a little less lonely for . . . more
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November 30, 2007 02:48 PM EST --
On Monday, December 10th at 10 p.m. ET, bestselling crime fiction writer Linda Fairstein will reveal her favorite true crime story on Court TV's series "Murder By The Book." The . . . more
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January 19, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
The response from writers to the First Chapters Competition has been overwhelming. Hundreds of great manuscripts have already been posted to the First Chapters group, and aspiring novelists are currently . . . more
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . . more
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . . more
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June 03, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
I said I wasn't going to write one of these articles, the kind that asks a question. But I want to know.
What fiction do you read? Do you read by genre? By author? . . . more
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November 08, 2007 05:23 PM EST --
On Monday, November 19th at 10 p.m. ET, bestselling crime fiction writer Lisa Gardner will reveal her favorite true crime story on Court TV's series "Murder By The Book." The episode . . . more
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February 14, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
I'm about half-way through a tour promoting my first novel, Love Walked In. Book tours are very interesting things. The readers I've met so far have all been kind. Many have also . . . more
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . . more
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October 06, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
I just got an email from Border’s Rewards with Oprah’s latest book pick, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I already read that book several months ago. I’m happy . . . more
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February 15, 2007 03:16 AM EST --
I "read" this book in the car during my frequent long commutes between students each day; actually, it was an unabridged audio book, and, like the last audio book, The Tender Bar, I loved it. . . . more
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October 01, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones, Lucky) reminds us that, while novels sometimes offer a comfortable escape, good fiction can also make us feel uncomfortable and conflicted, forcing us to confront our . . . more
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January 10, 2007 04:10 PM EST --
Are you an unpublished author looking to get your fabulous work of fiction in bookstores near you? Well, put away your query letters and fear of rejection and enter The Gather.com First Chapters Writing . . . more
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February 14, 2007 04:10 PM EST --
Hey Gather lit lovers, here's an opportunity to be the envy of your book club…
Thanks to our friends over at Borders, We have three signed advanced reader copies of Jodi Picoult's . . . more
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November 28, 2007 02:21 AM EST --
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
Fr. Tim - Book One
Whether you're a long time fan of Jan Karon's Mitford series or meeting Fr. Tim for the first time, you will enjoy this book. . . . more
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December 16, 2007 01:56 PM EST --
Well, this book is definitely a Big Book in one sense of the phrase. It is 1014 pages long!! But in the other sense of the term, yes it has Bigness. This historical novel explores the community of a town . . . more
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June 19, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
A spirited professional with hair as big as her heart, Stephanie Plum is back in Janet Evanovich's latest misadventure in bounty hunting, Lean Mean Thirteen. The bail bonds office of Plum's cousin . . . more
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September 12, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Picador
ISBN: 9780330447546 , June 2007, 256 pages, paperback, A$22.95
It’s probably fair to call The Road a perfect novel. . . . more
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February 18, 2007 01:43 PM EST --
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There was so much talk about the new music teacher before she arrivedthat her coming was almost anticlimactic. However, I would soon learnthat Ali Mather never allowed herself to be upstaged--not . . . more
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March 02, 2007 06:40 AM EST --
The “Nineteen Minutes” in Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is the time that it takes for Peter Houghton, the sensitive, awkward target of his classmates’ bullying and abuse, to . . . more
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