Archive for July, 2011

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Schedule Preview  August 1 – Simon & Schuster author Ron Hansen talks about getting from book to movie and how his ’20s noir came about. Giveaway: hardcover of A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion (historical novel) August 2 – Mike Farris of Farris Literary loans us his humorous presentation about how to get an agent to reject your book. … Continue Reading

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  This week I invite you to join me in participating in Michelle Miller’s High Summer Read-a-Thon July 25-31  Details are at The True Book Addict http://thetruebookaddict.blogspot.com For the Read-a-Thon, I am finishing up my book group’s read for this month, The Faith Club. Tomorrow I will be starting our next title by Thich Nhat Hanh. … Continue Reading

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Special thanks to my 100 charter subscribers! Although yours truly has been blogging since 2006, next month marks the first anniversary of this blog. Kicking off Blogoversary content right here on August 1 will be Simon & Schuster historical novelist Ron Hansen, whose book became the movie “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward … Continue Reading

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Visit the author at www.awareliving.net Synopsis Voices from the Land by Jan Marquart is a historical novel that tells the story of a small group of people and their incomparable ability to form a new town in the Southwest after President Lincoln freed the slaves in 1860. The story exposes the vicious hate of a … Continue Reading