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Shopping the Book
Been jumping through hoops and knocking my head against the wall since the day I finished my book of stories and began the publisher hunt. They call this phase “shopping” your book. And frankly, it...
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The Hapless Vacationer
Compliments of Guest Blogger, Fia Essen I reluctantly admit I was once a hapless vacationer, charmed by a Greek island and a realtor’s well-practiced tale of tranquil living. I fell in love with a...
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The Oldest Living Middle-Aged Writer On Reading
Compliments of Guest Blogger, The Oldest Living Middle-Aged Writer Well it happened again last night. I started reading a well-known book (Anne Tyler’s Ladder of Years) and I couldn’t do it. Couldn’t...
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Moving in Stages
Compliments of Guest Blogger, Kevin Standifer I moved to Chicago from Austin, TX just over ten years ago. Now after ten years of learning how to moisturize, shopping for the right humidifier, buying...
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In The Middle of the Night….
Compliments of The Oldest Living Middle-Aged Writer Murray was in a dark, dank warehouse crouching at the end of an aisle in a sea of cardboard boxes. Upstairs, drugs were being bought and sold....
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Weighing on My Mind
By Guest Blogger: The Oldest Living Middle-Aged Writer I’m closing in on losing 50 pounds as we begin 2015, and while I have more poundage to lose, I am close to my goal. Just last night I found a...
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The Authentic Tragedy of Speedy The Snail
Guest Post by Marc Ross ©2015 Several years ago my wife and I, while living in our first apartment, had next-door friends, Dave and Brookie, who were both frequently out of town. On a Friday I was...
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It’s the Bomb (worth reposting)
I’m clearly an addict. First it was reading, then cigarettes, then alcohol, then cars, then men, then writing, then fast cars, then fast men, then women, then fast women, then more reading, writing…....
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The Wax Museum
Whatever happened to Baby Jane is starting to happen to me. I’m not talking about serving up parakeets on a platter (not yet), like Bette Davis did to Joan Crawford in that twisted cinematic tale of...
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Why Do You Read?
Why do you read? For pleasure or for instruction? I read for pleasure and instruction. Because I’m still writing, I read for instruction, books like John MacDonald’s The Deep Blue Good-By. I’m reading...
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