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Ben Tanzer

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I am a co-founder of Wham! and the author of the books 99 Problems, You Can Make Him Like You, My Father's House and So Different Now among others. I also oversee day to day operations of This Zine Will Change Your Life and can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life the center of my vast, albeit faux media empire.


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The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have a new story, The Measuring by John Patrick Thurgood,which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and mistrial prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hop... read more »
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Most Likely You Go Your Way...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2008
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You Can Make Him Like You
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Lucky Man
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Repetition Patterns
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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99 Problems
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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My Father's House: A Novella
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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So Different Now
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The Terminator of Love
4.86 of 5 stars 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011
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Cool, Not Removed
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010
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Female indie writers are underrepresented in indie journals and magazines, but what does that mean, and how is it possible? Because they're out there, and here there may be only five of them, but take a fucking look, these writers should be everywher...more
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What you know about Orlando is so wildly incomplete, there's no choice but to find a bunch of terrific writers of Orlandian descent or connection to grab some slice of the city and illuminate those parts you are undoubtedly clueless about.

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Urgent, desperate, and ultimately a literary experience that leaves the reader hopeful for where literature may yet go.

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Stories as fresh in voice as any we've read recently.

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“The bigger you feel things, the more curious you are; and the more problems you want to solve and not actually run from, the better everything is, even the things you already love.”
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message 8: by Kate

Kate Hey Ben, just wanted to stop by and wish you and yours a very Happy Holiday season! I'm just excited to have a long weekend to read and work on some of my end of year journaling. It's the little things :)


Mel Chris Thank u Ben for ur friendship here ;-)

Blessed Footsteps  Memoirs of JR Holden

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Happy reading!!!


Milton Esitubi Mary Anita And The Second Liberation In KenyaAlso get entertained with the African flavour and passion, the culture, social life and politics


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Ed Rambeau Thanks for adding me as a friend, Ben. It's greatly appreciated.

The link below demonstrates a video I put together to promo my first novel FORBIDDEN STEPS. Be aware that I also do this for a living for other authors who wish to promo their work on YouTube.

Enjoy the vid and have a great evening. And thanks again, Ed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c21_S...


Vickie Thank you so much for adding me as your friend. Your books look very interesting and I completely agree...Frodo rocks!


message 3: by Tara

Tara Thanks for the add, Ben, and congrats on your own work.


message 2: by Ben

Ben Caleb wrote: "I just got my copy of Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine in the mail. I'll be burning through a few of my books to get to this one. Excited = me."

Ditto, all of it, mail, burn, read, excited, me.


message 1: by Caleb

Caleb Ross I just got my copy of Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine in the mail. I'll be burning through a few of my books to get to this one. Excited = me.


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