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cornelia
13 yrs ago
"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
cornelia
13 yrs ago
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Romance Readers
Where do you buy most books?
Brick and motor books stores
from the publisher sites online
from online sites (like Amazon & Fictionwise)
cornelia
14 yrs ago
Preditor & Editor Reader poll is up. Vote for your favorite authors and books of 2009. http://www.critters.org/predpoll/
cornelia
14 yrs ago
Preditor & Editor poll is up. Vote for your favorite authors and books of 2009. http://www.critters.org/predpoll/
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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Word "czars" at Lake Superior State University have released the 35th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. I totally agree with bromance and app. But tweet…
cornelia
14 yrs ago
Short Story Authors Who Support Soup Kitchen Charity
http://www.amazon.com/Short-Authors-Support-Kitchen-Charity/lm/R2D7HOMO29YQON
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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Short Story Authors Who Support Soup Kitchen Charity
http://www.amazon.com/Short-Authors-Support-Kitchen-Charity/lm/R2D7HOMO29YQON
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Help the homeless & listen to 11 authors read thier full stories
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Re: This is very nice!
cornelia
14 yrs ago
Thank you so much. Yes, I'm reading The Marfa Lights, a contempary fantasy about the ghost lights of Marfa Texas.
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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Help the homeless and listen to 11 authors read thier full short stories online to raise money for the Capuchin Soup Kitchen (http://www.cskdetroit.org) The telethon was yesterday, Tuesday, 12/22/09, but the 11 authors' …
cornelia
14 yrs ago
Help the homeless and listen to 11 authors read thier full short stories online to raise money for the Capuchin Soup Kitchen (http://www.cskdetroit.org) The telethon was yesterday, Tuesday, 12/22/09, but the 11 authors' …
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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Hi everyone,
I'm passing this interesting blog post on as any one familiar with Delilah Marvelle's books will probably want to help keep here serries but also her post brings out some things about the publishing indus…
cornelia
14 yrs ago
Hi everyone,
I'm passing this interesting blog post on as any one familiar with Delilah Marvelle's books will probably want to help keep here serries but also her post brings out some things aobut the publishing indus…
cornelia
14 yrs ago
Hi everyone,
I'm passing this interesting blog post on as any one familiar with Delilah Marvelle's books will probably want to help keep here serries but also her post brings out some things about the publishing indus…
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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It's a type of fantasy fiction - alternate history based on the idea - what if the technology age began with the industrial revolution and steam trains - so there might be robots, cars etc but all powered by steam. Like …
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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Can anyone suggest some good steam punk romance or steam punk books or short stories to read?
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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With the popularity of paranormal, fantasy, and Sci-Fi romance influencing romance readers to also cross over to read main-stream speculative fiction, is it heavily impacting speculative fiction sales right now? In other…
cornelia
14 yrs ago
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I wanted to share - if you like paranormal comedy romances - "A Fine Cauldron of Fish is hilarious." http://tinyurl.com/l9wrpx -Readers Top Pick on Night Owl Romance reviewed by Vee
cornelia
14 yrs ago
For all those Houstonians who like to read Speculative fiction - sci-fi/fantasy/horror and all cross genres of speculative fiction, Houston's own Sci fi-Fantasy convention - ApolloCon - is this month - the 26 -28th . Her…
cornelia
14 yrs ago
For all those Houstonians who like to read Speculative fiction - sci-fi/fantasy/horror and all cross genres of speculative fiction, Houston's own Sci fi-Fantasy convention - ApolloCon - is this month - the 26 -28th . Her…
cornelia
15 yrs ago
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I saw this on a yahoo list I'm on and just wanted to pass it on, to celebrate 60 years, Harlequin is offering free e-books you can Download your FREE book - from Harlequin - 16 full books.
http://www.harlequincelebrates…
cornelia
15 yrs ago
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I saw this on a yahoo list I'm on and just wanted to pass it on, to celebrate 60 years, Harlequin is offering free e-books you can Download your FREE book - from Harlequin - 16 full books - a total value of $60USD!
http…
cornelia
15 yrs ago
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Hi everyone,
This is a link to an article that mentions both The Jewel of Medina, being pulled due to a potential backlash- it was a fictionalized version about Aisha, the young wife of Prophet Muhammad and it also me…
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Libarian endorsing acitivity resulting in writers and pubs not getting paid
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Re: I'm stunned that a librarian said that.
cornelia
15 yrs ago
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> Is this person a professional librarian?
> Any member of the ALA, or anyone who has
> an MLS, should know at least the rudiments
> of copyright law, and understand the
> reasons behind the law.
> What she …
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Libarian endorsing acitivity resulting in writers and pubs not getting paid
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yes - due to encryption tehcnology still having flaws and not wanting to penalize
cornelia
15 yrs ago
Yes. The way I understand it is the large publishers use encryption, so on say books in e-book format from the New York Times best seller books will most likely be encryped. The smaller publsihers are not against encrypt…
cornelia
15 yrs ago
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At the ApolloCon Sci-Fi and fantasy convention in Houston in a panel called Libraries of the Future, one of the three person panel, an author, a libarrian who is also an author, and a librarian, the third (the librarian …
