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October 14, 2008 06:09 PM EDT --
Today I received my advance autographed copy of The Devil Can Wait by Marta Stephens. Marta is also a member of the Gather community. This is the second book her in a series of Sam Harper . . .
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July 12, 2008 06:00 PM EDT --
I was first drawn to this book because of the title. I think sometimes we would all like to say "drop dead" or worse to our neighbor. But I found that this book is about so much more than . . .
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July 19, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
The Smart One is a book that I found hard to get into. I had read nearly half of it before I finally started enjoying it. It seemed dull up until that point. Once I got into the story, it . . .
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July 03, 2006 04:14 AM EDT --
I was a newbie writer, despite the fact that it took me eight long years to finish my first manuscript. One I thought would never be finished. You know the one. The book you have tucked . . .
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June 19, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
The War for Wealth , the upcoming feature book for McGraw-Hill Books , addresses the issue of globalization and the problems it presents. Is it a force for good or an attempt to destroy the U.S.'s . . .
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May 02, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
Sometimes I feel like I am on a hill all alone with just me and my problems there. Do you know what I mean? Each stage of my life has presented many challenges but I think the time that my daughters . . .
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October 26, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
My book, The Courtship of Julian and Frieda, was published two years ago and still the invitations trickle in from reader’s groups and historical societies, schools and libraries. One engagement . . .
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September 14, 2006 02:49 PM EDT --
Here is an excerpt from my book as promised. The formatting is a bit funky as it was extracted from a PDF.
Background: In 1939 Julian, a young Polish Catholic, is deported from his homeland by the Nazis. . . .
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March 18, 2009 11:16 AM EDT --
hi friends! what a lovely spring this is - or WILL be! we recently had a wonderful interview on our travel site with our good friend barbary chaapel, about her sailing book, journey of the snow goose . . .
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May 17, 2006 03:24 PM EDT --
In my last post, I was in Boston, heading back from a great visit at the Gather.com headquarters to the Inn at Harvard to prepare for my reading that night at the Harvard Coop.
Almost 50 years ago, . . .
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June 14, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
The phone company used to give phone books away free. People think I'm kidding when I say they delivered thirty big boxes full of phone books to my apartment door. All four hundred . . .
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June 21, 2007 09:01 AM EDT --
Shafts of June sun peeked through the clouds. It was a day created for being outdoors because the wind diminished the heat. The weather had been unspeakably beautiful since my grandmother's funeral, . . .
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November 02, 2008 08:03 PM EST --
"A Silent Ocean Away" will take the reader back in time to the year 1833. This time period offers a backdrop to the book that adds excitement to the characters lives. It is about pride, greed, . . .
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July 07, 2006 01:32 AM EDT --
If you're writing your scene between two characters, delving deep into the emotions of your hero, only to hop over to the heroine and explore her feelings before jumping back into the hero's head, . . .
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November 18, 2007 04:35 PM EST --
SILENCED CRY
© 2007 Marta Stephens
ISBN: 978-1-905202-72-0
The hour-long sessions started at nine in the morning, twice a week, whether narcotics detective, Sam Harper liked . . .
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March 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
'Write what you know.' Everybody—especially writers—have heard this adage. So why do I always find myself writing about sisters (I have three brothers), old houses . . .
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March 17, 2008 03:49 PM EDT --
Marnie
For thousands of years, the Atlantic Ocean has beat against the beach of my childhood, its watery fingers stealing more and more of the soft silted sand, grabbing at the estuaries and creeks . . .
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March 25, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
Recently I was riding in my car (blissfully and unexpectedly alone—except for my dog) and I heard an old Rod Stewart song. I'm not certain of the title but the lyrics go something like . . .
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July 16, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Some people have a fear of public places, others fear public speaking, while yet others fear speaking on the phone. I fear none of those things. What I fear is getting the mail.
My fears . . .
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August 31, 2006 09:43 AM EDT --
Ten years ago I met two people that exemplified my ideal of true love. Their minds unfettered by prejudice and malice in an age of the stuff, they sacrificed everything for one another and very nearly . . .
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