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The Kirkus Review is in for my book. The consensus is…

The Kirkus Review is in for my book. The consensus is...

While I was out wandering the mountains of Georgia, someone was typing up and submitting their review of Not Waving, Drowning for the inimitable Kirkus Review. I am pleased to report, I do NOT suck. I did not star, but neither did I crash and burn. For those of you that have purchased and read Not Waving, Drowning. Thank you, and I hope you agree with all the most wonderful parts of this review, and that you stuck through the complicated parts… because I write for a smart, yet complicated reader, and let’s face it, life is damn messy.

What …

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Buy a real hold-in-your-hand-smell-the-paper copy of Not Waving, Drowning today.

Buy a real hold-in-your-hand-smell-the-paper copy of Not Waving, Drowning today.
Now available as a "real" book. Shipped to your door. Signed by the author.
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Somedays, I write like a bestselling author

two scenes similarly written... great minds think alike, right? Fingers crossed.
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THE BOOK IS OUT.

free e-book, doing it the modern way
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Should you join the digital revolution? This guy’s got the answers.

Here it is. One stop shopping for answers to the quaetions you’ve been asking yourself.

*insert hauntingly mystical soundtrack here*

 

Links to posts by David Gaughran, found on his blog: Let’s Get Digital.…

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the complete list of linda’s electronic shorts

Apologies to the folks who had difficulty finding the list.

all links are here…. download and be reading within seconds.

CLICK THE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR A LINK TO AMAZON/KINDLE

click the lower case words for a link to all e-readers, including phones, computers and high tech stuff yet to reach the USA

                  1. LEGAL THRILLER

         based on a true crime in 1970′s Philadelphia

2. ADULT THEMED FAIRY TALES IN SNIPPETS 

             ever wonder what someone is thinking?

3. LIKE YOUR

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They said it would never happen.

They said it would never happen.
publishing trends: change is coming
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New books become films before they are printed as books?

Hollywood can make a full feature film is less time than Simon and Schuster can print a book. What's wrong with picture-- or, How to kill off readers, in your sloth.
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Electronic Short Stories now on Smashwords

short stories on smashwords...reading on the run
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I heard the word literary, followed by gimmick. Of course I had to read it.

This is taken directly from an article

by Caryn James

Caryn James

In a world of sinking sales, gimmicks have become the literary writer’s life raft, and maybe something more.

Is the fiction any good? Here’s a look at several serious yet gimmicky novels, all worth reading for one reason or another. Whether those reasons have anything to do with their high-profile stunts is a more intriguing question.

Book Cover - 13 Rue Therese13, Rue Thérèse
By Elena Mauli Shapiro

Mesh gloves, a rosary, a pencil-holder made from shells of German guns—these are some of the real-life objects that inspired this World War I-era novel, with photos …

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