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So my book launching thing in Mornington was a massive flop. Geezzzuzzzz, no one came! Ha! Oh well, you live and learn. Reminded me of some of my crappier gigs when I used to play in my various bands ... you know, when the crowd would only comprise of the band's girlfriends, the roadie and the so... Read more of this blog post »

Since Red Sister is the current #1 best selling fantasy on UK Amazon I'm giving away my last hardback copy, signed.

All you need to do to be in the draw is retweet this:

https://twitter.com/Mark__Lawrence/st...

The odds are currently 1 to 26.

My last Goodreads giveaway had odds of 1 to 17,749... Read more of this blog post »

To celebrate completing the Trilogy, I’m offering Torchship for free through the weekend. Torchship Pilot is on a Kindle countdown sale, starting at $0.99 and going up a dollar a day. Tell your friends who’ve been thinking about it to act fast.

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Bob Dylan’ın çok yönlü bir müzisyen olduğunu herkes bilir. Dylan, Grammy, Oscar, Pulitzer ödülleri derken, edebiyat alanında verilen en saygın ödül olan Nobel’i de geçen yıl evine götürerek, yıldızını bir kez daha parlattı. Bu ödül, bazılarını şaşırtıp, tartışmalar başlatmış olsa da, aslında Bob...

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Дорогие канадцы, выезжаю сегодня к вам. Вот график предстоящих выступлений, приходите, если есть желание пообщаться. Буду очень рада встрече.
22.09, Остров Виктория, справки по телефону: (250) 818 9991, Лев
24.09, Ванкувер, справки по телефону: (604) 657 0368, Анна
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It’s been a long haul, and I know you’ve all been waiting patiently for my next Guardian book. I’m so pleased to finally reveal it’s cover, which means the book will be available soon.

 

COVER: Montana Jade

Title: Guardian Unraveled

Series: Fallen Guardians #3

Release date: November 7th

BLURB:...

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Лучшее место для укачивания детей в коляске - это Красная площадь. Пройдешь от одного края до другого и вуаля - ребенок спит.

iOS 11 is here with its launch on September 18. It has many excellent features that make it a class apart. There is a searchable handwriting but it is available currently only for English and Chinese. Apple Pay Cash is available right now only in the U.S. for person to person payments. It is av...

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Join Christopher and author Delilah S. Dawson, a.k.a. Lila Bowen, for their engaging conversation about her latest book, the intricacies of writing, the publishing industry, and project management for the unorganized! Learn how Delilah failed her first attempt at writing because of perfectionist...

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My lovely publisher, St. Martin’s Press, has partnered with Goodreads to give away 100 free copies (!) of my forthcoming novel, Gods of Howl Mountain…six months ahead of the March 2018 pub date! Easy to enter — here’s the link:

Enter Giveaway

 

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Today is is the cover reveal for the third book in Jennifer L. Armentrout’s series A Wicked sage: Brave! I can’t wait to read this book. Let me know what you think of this cover or the first two books if you read them!

There’s also a giveaway that you can enter and information about a virtual sign...

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Today’s Blog Post is at   NDulgent Bloggers (Guilty Indulgence)!

Be sure to stop by all participating blogs during the Tramps and Thieves Blog Tour! I have written a serialized story about Rook and his cousin, Alex, as they go to an estate sale… an adventure neither one of them exp...

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I learned at an early age the power of words. And yes, it’s true—once on paper, fears and doubts tend to stay there, as if exorcised by the very act of writing them down. Sounds crazy, I know, but it works. For a while, at least.

FAKE DOVES

Evening falls on the garden of hope
And there she is, all c... Read more of this blog post »

Have an amazing time tonight @artofhopeglobal — a nonprofit org that supports refugees overcoming trauma, PTSD, psychological wounds through ArtTherapy in Lebanon & beyond…“ #Repost @artofhopeglobal

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HOPE, ART, IMAGINATION = WHAT HELPS US END THE WEEK.

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Moving young children from the Third World to Sweden wipes out about half of their national IQ deficit.  What about performance in high school?  Vinnerljung et al.'s "School Performance at Age 16 Among International Adoptees" (International Social Work, 2010)  compiles the numbers, once again bre... Read more of this blog post »

I know it. When people read a blog on WP, they’re looking for happy posts that make them feel good. And I try. I post memes, jokes, stuff that might bring a smile.

But I don’t feel that way. I rarely feel that way. And as the pain in my neck and back from the accident refuses to subside, creating...

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You’ll recall, last month, I produced a little article about a big event – Fantasy in the Court. Now, being truthful, a lot of that was Harry Illingworth’s wonderful words. I merely sprinkled stardust around it and got a in a few photographs I’d taken. Harry has graciously agreed to dispense more... Read more of this blog post »

I spent most of my years as a writer working in the real world. That is to say a world just like this one we all inhabit, give or take a few sideways trips into the Weird Zone. A ghost, a werewolf, strange things from beyond, the Fae making a trip into our realm. That sort of thing. It can be a... Read more of this blog post »

I learned something interesting a few days. There’s an old phrase that anyone who ever watched Bugs Bunny cartoons has probably heard: “Them’s fightin’ words.” It was one of the irascible Yosemite Sam’s lines, if I recall correctly.

[image error]Don’t criticize the quality. That would be fightin’... Read more of this blog post »

In 1954, James Watson and George Gamow formed a “gentleman’s club” to “solve the riddle of the RNA structure and to understand how it built proteins.” There were 20 members, each of whom was designated by an amino acid:

Member


Training


Tie Designation




George Gamow


Physicist


ALA




Alexander Rich


Biochemis... Read more of this blog post »

In the last few months, I have started to write a haiku on a daily basis. Mainly to improve evoking emotions in as few as words as possible and also become the form is simple. Here are eight samples, hope you enjoy.

1.
Crunchy aging leafs
September autumn shiver
Still need sunglasses

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Blood tinged ho... Read more of this blog post »

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Before I got my smartphone, I was always lost. Must the left-handed thing I have going on, but I not only got lost a lot, but I hated asking for directions.

Now I’m in GPS heaven. My phone takes me wherever I need to go.

The same thing is true re: me asking for nominations. I just d...

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¡Hola a todos!
Mi idea al pasarme hoy al fin por este blog era poneros un poco al día de cómo me va la vida y tal, pero la verdad es que no ha cambiado demasiado desde la última vez que me pasé. Y, aparte, quizá os aburra XD
Así que he decidido aprovechar para hacer esta nueva entrada dedicada a lo... Read more of this blog post »

National Customer Service Week is coming up the first week in October. This is a time to appreciate employees for doing a great job taking care of customers. There are many ways companies are celebrating. Everything from an employee appreciation event, like a lunch or dinner, to fun games that ar...

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One of the most popular questions I get is this:

How do I control all the paper?

I understand this question completely because I have a big yellow desk and when I get lazy, that’s the first area that goes out of control for me too.

A post shared by Marcia Francois (@organisingqueen) on Sep 1,...

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Now a New York Times bestselling author, Katy Tur joins to discuss her new memoir 'Unbelievable' on her time covering the Trump campaign.

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dailyladylyrics:

13 beaches - lana del rey

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In molti mi avete chiesto, in seguito alla mia anteprima, cosa ne pensassi di "The Winner's Curse - La maledizione" di Marie Rutkoski. Be' finalmente sono riuscita a condividere con me la mia recensione spoiler-free di questo promettente inizio serie!


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ALAN: Last time you were telling me about your cat Gwydion’s food allergies. I sympathise with Gwydion because I have similar problems myself.

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Alan’s Bane

My mother told me that when I was very young, just moving on to solid food, she had to stop feeding me eggs because every time she...

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