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Nina Bawden, Author of Carrie’s War
Nina Bawden (January 19, 1925 – August 22, 2012) was a British novelist, children’s book writer, and campaigner. Best known for the children’s novel Carrie’s War, she published twenty-three adult novels and twenty children’s books over some fifty years.
In all of her writing, she made “use of all of
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Reunion Scene

Dylan Vargas had a crush on Brisa Franco since high school. Since she's his best friend's little sister, she has always been off limits. Now, a decade later, he meets her again for the first time.
DYLANSeveral birds chirped from a tall live oak tree nearby as a gentle breeze rustled its leaves.
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Now available! -- The Premiere Issue - THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY™ #1

Open Thread for Readers for October 2023
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post about it here!

Guest Blogger - Lorraine Mace

When God Sends Messengers

Atomic Habits...of Art!
Dear Reader,
Today is the first day of October, which means it’s the first day of INKtober—a month-long challenge to create daily ink drawings. I heard of it for the first time in 2018 when I’d started drawing every day, and I loved it immediately. It got me practicing inking techniques like hatching
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Of Deals, Dukes, and Uncle Bob
On the blog this week, I relate one of the happiest surprises to befall me in years, and I have Uncle Bob to thank for it. Chime in with your comments here.
And the Deals fairy has smiled on all four Windham Brides titles for the month of October. Details on my Deals page. (Clever of me, I know.) Thi
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A struggle to survive in the end of days – #PostApocalypticThriller #ScienceFiction @bsmithnovelist

Blurb
Twoyears ago, a solar pulse destroyed modern life. Bea Crenshaworganized her starving, suburban neighbors into a farming community.But now Bea’s gone, and her grandchildren must carry her legacyforward.
Inthe post-apocalyptic pressure cooker of Austin, Texas, 19-year-oldKeno
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Happiness is a Cup of Hot Chocolate
It’s not even chilly yet, but the hot is gone from southern PA, so I’ve been drinking hot chocolate, a beverage I forget about entirely once spring gets here. But as soon as the temperature reaches that maybe-take-a-sweater point, I buy milk and dump chocolate powder into it. Bob would sneer at this
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Warden Walters
The final joke of Bomb, the fourth episode of The Young Ones, never gets the laugh I think it deserves. It’s not a bomb, it’s an egg the plane has laid. I wonder if the noise of the baby plane has been mixed too loud and drowns out the laugh.
Anyway, here’s Rick’s exclamation when he firsts sees the
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Chapter 3

ANKLE SNATCHER by Grady Hendrix

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I chose this short story as my first spooky October read, and I'm glad I did because it was a lot of creepy fun.
Marcus is enjoying a nice second date with a girl he really likes when he shares the unfortunate story about how his father kille Read more of this blog post »

10/1: The Takeout: Author and legal analyst Lis Wiehl

Hoje na História do Mundo: 2 de Outubro
DARWIN VOLTA À INGLATERRA
Em 1836, o naturalista Charles Darwin chega a Falmouth, na Cornualha, no Sudoeste da Inglaterra, depois de cinco anos de viagem a bordo do navio Beagle em que coletou espécimens e fez observações que servem de base à sua Teoria da Evolução das Espécies atrav
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Contest! Win a Lifetime Membership to the Puttyverse Community
Hi multipotentialite friends!
In celebration of the new Puttyverse website, which we just launched last month, I’ve decided to run a contest—woo hoo!!
I’m giving away 3 lifetime memberships to the Puttyverse community. As long as the ‘verse exists, you will have free access.
This contest is open to eve
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Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
Review of Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (London: Oneworld, 2023).
Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Avi Shlaim is an Israeli-British scholar who has authored six books on the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the role played in it by the Kingdom of Jorda
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Sting in the Tail: Carnival of Mysteries by TA Moore
NEW RELEASE BLOG TOUR

Book Title: Sting in the Tail: Carnival of Mysteries
Author: TA Moore
Publisher: Rogue Firebird Press
Cover Artist: Diane Theis
Release Date: October 4, 2023
Genre: MM Paranormal Romance
Tropes: Unfinished Business, First Times, Ticking Clock
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 87
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Indigo Girls Will Play Nov. 3 About 1.75 Hours from Springfield
10/1/2023 UPDATE: The Indigo Girls will also play about 45 minutes by car from Springfield, Massachusetts, in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 2. Tickets were almost sold out days after they went on sale. Amtrak goes from Northampton, Massachusetts to New Haven, Connecticut.
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Getting Back on the Crocheted Horse

Call for manuscripts: The Rane Arroyo Series
It’s October, and we’re reading manuscripts for our annual Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series. Recent chapbooks in this series include Kelly Rowe’s Child Bed Fever, Caroyn Oliver’s Night Ocean, Jon Conley’s House Hunters International, Cameron Gearen’s Sorry, Wept the Littered Riverbed, and–publishing soon
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»Das sind Killerwaffen in staatlicher Hand«
Bewaffnete Drohnen, wie die Bundeswehr sie haben will, müssen international geächtet werden. Ein Gespräch mit Tobias Pflüger
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Girl Math/Boy Math
A lot of men out there seriously hate women. And "not all men" to be sure, but enough that it's starting to slide into it's own pandemic. And with feminine rage slowly growing it's starting to become a real battlefield.
Why isn't feminine rage man hating? Because women actually don't hate men. We hat
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Boston Strong
Our Boston Red Sox
In the “Big Inning” baseball was created and has been religiously followed by the fans of Boston ever since.
Recently I attended a panel entitled Our Boston at the Boston Bookfest where Bob Oakes, sporting a fake beard and coiffed in a Red Sox cap, discussed the restorative force of
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Earthworks in SeaTac
So, I knew about Earthworks Park in Kent, which incorporates the remnants of the original Mill Creek that once ran off East Hill and across the valley floor And a few years back I discovered the standing stones of Tukwila (or possibly Renton), near the remnants of the old Black River (now a repari
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Cognitive Decline is on America’s Mind

As most of you are aware, nobody prevented World War II, which end Read more of this blog post »

Audiobook Market Trends

We’ve made it to the last post on “
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The Bread of Life - A Sermon for World Communion Sunday (a repost) (John 6)


It is World Communion Sunday, a day on which churches from across the globe gather at the Table to celebrate the promise of oneness at the Table. Since I'm not preaching this morning, I share this sermon from 2011. May it prove to be a blessing.
John 6:41-51
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On Writing Drinking From the Fishbowl (originally posted on Substack 9/29/2023)
“…I want to write this one as though it were my last book.” (Journal of a Novel, the East of Eden Letters, by John Steinbeck, quote from page 8, February 12.)
From January 29-November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck documented the writing of East of Eden in notebooks, entries addressed to “Pat” (Pascal C
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