April 2012
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2012 Edgar Award Winners Revealed - GalleyCat →
The Mystery Writers of America have revealed the winners of this year’s Edgar Awards. The annual prize is named after beloved writer Edgar Allan Poe, awarded to the best authors in the mystery genre since 1945. These awards recognize the following categories: novel, first novel, paperback original, fact crime, critical/biographical, short story, juvenile, young adult, play, and TV episode. Last...
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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“One nice thing about fiction writing: it’s the only profession where...”
– Author Jenny Lundquist
Apr 27th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Send Yourself a Rejection Letter | Galleycat →
What was the worst rejection letter you ever received? Rejection is a big part of the writing life, and one website can help you cope. Over at the Stoneslide Corrective, you can send yourself an automatically generated rejection letter, customized for your favorite kind of rejection.  The flavors of mean letters range from Old Belcher to Southern Gentleman to The Civil Gesture. Check it out:...
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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The Passing Of A Legend: Remembering Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace passed away yesterday at the age of 93. He and Don Hewitt were responsible for the founding of 60 Minutes and Mike became one of its founding correspondents. The program debuted on Sept. 24, 1968. His career in journalism began long before he became a household name on the show that defined the news magazine genre.  Wallace cut his journalistic teeth on the radio in 1940s Chicago,...
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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I Call Shenanigans :: Sneaking a SOPA clone... →
This is called; if at first you don’t succeed in pulling the wool over the publics eyes… try, try again but do it in secret for as long as possible. H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which is another re-hash of SOPA and PIPA, constitutes a substantial threat to the Internet as we know it.  The bill intends “to provide for the sharing of certain...
Apr 6th
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Fox In Socks! Dartmouth Names Its Medical School... →
by ADAM COLE and JULIE ROVNER/NPR An imagined new facade for Dartmouth’s school of medicine (with apologies to Dr. Seuss). At the college of Dartmouth, in the year ‘24 There lived a young humorist named Theodor. Though boozing was banned as a crime and a sin, Theo hosted a party with plenty of gin. But then in through the door without even a knock Burst the grinch who stole...
Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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““A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious...”
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Apr 4th
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Why Snobs Like Joel Stein Are Wrong About Adults... →
Over at thinkprogress.org, columnist Alyssa Rosenberg responds to columnist and critic Joel Stein. “I suppose Joel Stein thinks he’s being rather clever and sophisticated in his riff for the New York Times about why grown-ups shouldn’t read literature aimed at young adults (something he conflates with picture books)…” For myself, having too often read his opinions on books...
Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result....”
– @AuthorKatM
Apr 3rd
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Writer Beware ® Blogs!: Writer Beware's Swag Shop... →
  Introducing Writer Beware’s Swag Shop for Discerning Scammers.  (More at the link…)
Apr 2nd
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New Opening for Hyperintelligent Pandimensional...
Posted April 01, 2012  Today, we’d like to spotlight our newest open position: Hyperintelligent Pandimensional Mice A US Top 150 site and the 10th largest social networking site in the galaxy, is seeking Hyperintelligent Pandimensional Mice to take charge of its Recommendation Engine, the third greatest supercomputer in the Universe of Space and Time designed to answer the Ultimate...
Apr 2nd
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A Royal Deception: The False Prince
“Rare is the book that moves and enchants an individual, let alone so many of us.” So stated the letter from Scholastic that accompanied the ARC for the first book in Jennifer Nielsen’s new Trilogy, which I blogged about here and here last year. Well, April of 2012 is finally here, a copy of ‘the book’ is in our hands… and we are delighted, enchanted, and not...
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