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Bill Gates reviews “Capitalism Without Capital” by authors Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake.

If you've read my Pier 70 series, then you've met Milly and AJ. 
From the moment I typed Milly's name for the first time, I knew she was going to be something special. And as soon as Hudson's brother stepped into the picture, I knew they would have something special together.
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How to Write a Bestselling Novel: In 7 Minutes a Day to Your Bestseller, writers receive expert advice on topics like motivating yourself to write, starting your story with exciting opening lines, creating intriguing characters, mastering the craft of writing to elevate your style, and pitching...

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Эмиль Нольде (Emil Nolde) тоже котиков умел. По-своему:







/Отдельная прекрасная история про Эмиля Нольде: когда ему официально запретили рисовать, предварительно причислив к дегенеративному искусству вместе со всем остальным живым и талантливым, что подвернулось под руку (фашысты, будучи нормальными... Read more of this blog post »

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Buruma on Naipaul:

'Naipaul’s most famous novel, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), drew on the father’s story of frustrated ambition. By going back into the world of his childhood, he found the words to create his own link to that universal literary civilization. He often told int...

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How do you know when you’re done with a creative project? You don’t. Not really. Here’s what you need to do in order to end the process of writing a book well.

In this episode of The Portfolio Life, we finish the special mini-series on How to Write a Book. Here are the first two episodes if you...

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Hahahah. Functional, hot. Leo does it again! via @drawingolive pic.twitter.com/EtQYZvUSSq

— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) August 14, 2018

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PLEASE DON’T FEED THE GOBLINS! by thePicSees

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Don’t Let Your Love of Photography DIE!

As someone who has been working as a photographer and videographer in the wedding industry for over 20 years, I’ve been able to witness a lot of the exciting changes the industry has gone through in the last 2 decades. As the digital age has emerged, it...

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Romance  Unbreak My Heart by Lauren Blakely I didn’t break her heart, and she didn’t break mine — we broke each other’s. I never stopped loving her, but time and distance played its cruel role in ripping us apart three years ago when she moved halfway around the world. Now after all those endless... Read more of this blog post »

We’re not supposed to have favorites. Like, kids. I’m a mom and I’m not supposed to have a favorite kid. And I don’t. I might have a favorite kid on one day, and then another day it’s another kid. Maybe…Read more ›

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Lori is excited to reveal sexy e-book covers for two of her reissued books coming out this Fall. Read an excerpt from An Honorable Man, book 5 in the Men of Courage series (reissuing October 15) and pre-order your copy in digital f...

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I’ll readily admit that book marketing is not my expertise, but some commonly accepted maxims really chafe for me. Indeed, my gut tells me I should do the opposite. So here they are, for better or perverse. Rebellion 1: Social media – use pictures and videos for greater engagement We all know the... Read more of this blog post »

So I blog four nights a week, most weeks.

I think of it as a professional thing, and I like sharing, and I love telling stories, so it's not really a hardship.

Tonight, as I was sitting down to blog (which is usually the start to the bulk of my work day and the time the kids go to bed) the kids sta... Read more of this blog post »

I love looking at photos of abandoned buildings. So many questions. Who lived there? Why did they leave? How quickly did nature take back the building. Some of them look really spooky, the perfect place to be haunted, with stories of lost love and tragic endings. So many plot bunnies.

There are s...

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For the past year, my daughter’s been systematically “downsizing.” What does that mean to her? She’s been “decluttering” rooms and tossing or giving away things she doesn’t actually use. She’s gone on a closet-cleaning craze where she places everything on hangers—backwards—and if she hasn’t turne...

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Bruce Metzger, my mentor in graduate school, for both my Master’s degree and my PhD, has been invoked a number of times in recent comments on the blog.  I thought it might be interesting to repost a few reminiscences I made about my work with him.  These come from posts that appeared six years ag...

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Have you ever sunk your teeth into what you thought was going to be a juicy peach, only to discover it was under-ripe or mealy and not worth eating? Tasteless fruit is an affront to both the taste buds and the pocketbook.

But how do you tell if your fruit is ripe before cut into it or take a bit... Read more of this blog post »

WASHINGTON — The Latest on primaries in Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin (all times local):

11:20 p.m.

Former state Rep. Joe Radinovich has won a crowded Democratic primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan in a northeastern Minnesota swing district.

Radinovich defeated Rep. Jaso...

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Today I’m over on Reddit’s r/Fantasy doing an AMA in support of The Pixel Project to End Violence Against Women. So if there’s something you’ve been dying to ask me — or if a random question just wandered into your head — now’s your chance to get it answered!

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Excited to Announce the 1st Annual Asian American Anthology Short Story Contest. Sponsored by Bestselling Award-winning Author & Filmmaker Kailin Gow. Kailin Gow is hosting a contest to discover Asian American voices in all genres. More info. coming soon! http://ow.ly/i/HEv5J

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Have you ever felt like curling into a ball and hiding in the corner because life’s just run you down? Have you reached for a book instead of giving in to that urge because you know a story will take you away to a mystical place where life delivers rainbows and love, heartache and happiness, and...

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The Brass Verdict is, I think, one of Michael Connelly's best books, and it reinforces the notion that in this genre, virtually nobody does it better. It's Connelly's eighteenth book and is significant because it is the first to feature both his long-time L.A. homicide detective, Harry Bosch, an... Read more of this blog post »

THOM YORKE TOMORROW’S MODERN BOXES U.S. TOUR 2018Thom Yorke has confirmed a series of live electronic performances in the U.S. during which he, Nigel Godrich and visual artist Tarik Barri will perform songs spanning his solo works The Eraser and Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes and Atoms For Peace’s Amok.... Read more of this blog post »

Rod Dreher, a voice adored by some conservatives and despised by some progressives, always speaks his mind with utterly clear prose. You don’t have to be a conservative to feel the blunt end of this bad-boy description: Looking back on it, it was not sexual abuse by priests that caused me to lose... Read more of this blog post »

I have dug. I have bored. I have burrowed and mined, excavated and quarried through every messy scrap of the car accident searching for meaty bits to attach to my Cozy. I have found one. One. A juicy emotional appendage to lop onto my sleuth. How morbid of me. Bottom line: Sometimes you must be t... Read more of this blog post »

Okay, 49 pounds, but close enough for the headline and I need a blog post.

Short version, I got really fat, but I’ve recently lost a bunch of weight with:

A. Intermittent Fasting

B. Low Carb

C. Caloric Restriction (not really on purpose, but because of A and B.

Long version:

I’ve always been a big guy....

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Information on my books in Russian.

Tiger’s Curse

Tiger’s Quest

Tiger’s Voyage

 

Tiger’s Destiny

 

Tiger’s Promise

 

Reawakened

Recreated-No immediate plans to publish

Reignited-No immediate plans to publish

Reunited-No immediate plans to publish

The Lantern’s Ember-Coming 2019! (This will be at a new p...

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Hey everyone! A Polish fan recently put up one of their customized Demon-Cycle-Themed bookmarks and it is just awesome.

Natalia Jakobowska aka jakvb_art on Instagram created a bookmark that is both awesome and terrifying at the same time. Check it out:

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Feeling semi-randomly angry and pointless today (as in, what is the overall point of trying to express myself, except to myself and via my own poetry - and what is the overall point of THAT expression?) - so I thought I would try to lift my spirits a bit by posting this photo of a recent fortune... Read more of this blog post »

The Chairman’s Toys
by Graham Reed
on Tour August 1-31, 2018

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Vancouver, British Columbia – land of psychotically expensive real estate, high-grade cannabis, and Jake Constable. A man adrift.

After Jake quits the drug business, his realtor/ex-wife, Nina, gets him a job as a house sitte...

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Going over the program schedule, I see that I'm down for a reading Friday 6:30-7:00 in 211A.  This item isn't listed anywhere else and I wasn't told about it, so I'm not sure how legit it is.  Just in case, I'm packing a excerpt from the next novel, By Demons Possessed.

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