Tag: writing
group name: borders
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April 25, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
Helen was uneasy all day. “Something’s wrong,” she said at dinner. When she got home at 8:30 pm, the phone rang. It was my college roommate. “Helen, Stacy was in a diving accident. . . . more
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December 05, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
"When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders"
His childhood: . . . more
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June 19, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
So I was asked to talk a bit about getting published. I've been asked about this an awful lot so it seems as good a topic as any . . . after my usual disclaimers :)
Disclaimer the First-- . . . more
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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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April 04, 2007 06:08 PM EDT --
Congratulations to our Reader Promotion winners whose comments on each of the 20 advancing First Chapters submissions were selected as the most insightful. These readers will be awarded a $500 Borders . . . more
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January 10, 2007 08:52 PM EST --
Today, I’m exceptionally excited to announce Gather’s newest writing competition, one of our most promising programs to date: The Gather.com First Chapters Writing Competition. First . . . 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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May 30, 2007 06:32 PM EDT --
Please send our First Chapters Writing Competition Grand Prize Winner Terry Shaw your heartfelt congratulations by publishing a comment below. Your Gather username will be included in the published book! . . . more
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May 30, 2007 06:44 PM EDT --
Quality of Submissions Drives Judges to Award a Second Book Contract
NEW YORK, New York/BOSTON, Mass., May 31, 2007 - Gather.com, the leader in social media for adults, and the Touchstone imprint of Simon . . . more
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August 06, 2007 01:53 PM EDT --
Loving Frank is a work of fiction based on events relating to the love affair of a brilliant, controversial architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of his clients, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Mamah, along with . . . more
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January 10, 2007 04:09 PM EST --
Eligibility and Submission Guidelines
Eligibility:
• Authors who have not previously published a full length book (excluding self published and vanity press) are eligible to compete in the First . . . more
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January 12, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
The 2007 Gather.com First Chapters Writing Competition is underway and members have started to ask some great questions. This article addresses questions members have asked regarding the contest. We will . . . more
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March 23, 2007 01:29 AM EDT --
One thing no one ever warned me about Gather is that it’s addictive. As soon as I returned from my book tour, I plunked my heavy suitcase in the hallway, and kissed my kids and my dogs and . . . more
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April 06, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
Because writers are essentially people who live and die by the power of imagination, we tend to dream extravagantly, wildly, sometimes impossibly. But that’s all right. Dreams are our task masters . . . more
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November 01, 2007 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently had the privilege of interviewing bestselling author David Baldacci. Mr. Baldacci's new book "Stone Cold" will be released on November 6th. He will also be hosting . . . more
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January 29, 2007 06:29 PM EST --
Welcome to Borders.Gather.com!
A sincere thank you and welcome to all of you who have joined the conversation about books, music and movies at Borders.Gather.com. We are thrilled to team up with . . . 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 22, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
Dean Koontz wanted "to write a story with a runaway-train pace, involving mistaken identity." The result? Another New York Times best seller titled The Good Guy. Dean recently . . . more
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August 03, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Today I am not in frame of mind to write.Ya,writers are like this but after reading few articles I took my pen and started writing on a very sensitive issue, which plays a major part in a writer's . . . more
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January 15, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
Step One
Quit your job. It sounds illogical and crazy and plain foolish, but you'll have to do it if you want to be taken seriously when someone asks you what you do and you say, "Huh? Oh. I'm . . . more
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