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I seem to be married to the Jimmy Buffett of New England, at least judging by how my wife's Ski Diva web site and mystery series have taken off.
Her site, TheSkiDiva.com, is without question the premier internet destination for women who want to talk skiing. The site's nearly two thousand members engage in lively discussion of gear, technique, travel, and so on. It's reached the point where if you Google almost any women's ski gear by name, you'll get a link to Wendy's site. Very cool.
Maybe...

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A few months back, Random House acquired my second novel, Kings of the Earth, for publication in July of 2010.
Here's the jacket copy...
"Following up Finn—his much-heralded and prize-winning debut whose voice evoked "the mythic styles of his literary predecessors...William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Edward P. Jones" (San Francisco Chronicle)—Jon Clinch returns with Kings of the Earth, a powerful and haunting story of life, death, and family in rural America.
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Wendy Clinch's debut novel—DOUBLE BLACK: A SKI DIVA MYSTERY—is coming to your favorite bookstore on Jauary 5, 2010.
It's about a young woman who heads for a Vermont ski town to pursue the ski-bum lifestyle, only to stumble on financial intrigue, bitter family warfare, and murder. It has lots of quirky characters and loads of New England atmosphere, and it stars a young woman with nerve, spunk, and a sense of humor about it all.
Here's the first line:
<>"When Stacey Curtis found the dead man in the be</>

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"The Dog," a story that might be considered a missing chapter from Finn, is now available on my web site as a free download. It's also a low-priced eBook for Amazon's Kindle, but I wanted to make it available to folks who haven't yet caught up with that particular technology.
Folks like myself, that is...

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Just before Huckleberry Finn went to press, Mark Twain's publisher asked him to remove an episode from near the start of Chapter 16. The deleted pages showed Huck eavesdropping on a group of raftsmen by night, and over time became known to scholars as "The Raftsmen's Passage" or "The Raft Chapter." The material appeared in Life on the Mississippi, and was first restored to Huck in a 1944 edition.

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Kings of the Earth, my new novel, just sold to Random House.
<>Here's the run-down...

<>Impoverished, illiterate, and rooted to the land, the three Proctor brothers have lived and worked together since childhood. When one dies and another is suspected of his murder, the community begins to talk. KINGS OF THE EARTH is a story of life and death and what comes after, on a hardscrabble farm in upstate New York.

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Every two years, the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College hosts the International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies.
<>Among the scholars on deck for the 2009 conference is Takuya Kubo, Associate Professor at Japan's Kanazawa University. Professor Kubo specializes in 19th century American Literature, chiefly the work of Mark Twain, and his approach to Twain is an interesting one: He considers Twain's work through the lens of Masculinity Studies. The title of his conference p</>

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You know what they say: Mission Accomplished.

Here's a story from the Hartford Courant on the improved financial state of the Mark Twain House & Museum...

A million thanks to those who've given of their time and funds to help preserve this bit of holy ground. Keep it up!

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