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This week I’ve been thinking a lot about connections. When you’re a writer you spend a lot of time alone. At a desk, in front of a computer keyboard or pad-and-pen. Writing. Yes, that’s important. To write you need to time alone, to create scene...

Exciting news! TEAR ME APART is today’s Audible Daily Deal! Get the audiobook for just $4.95. This is incredible savings! The audiobook was narrated by Eva Kaminsky, Rebekkah Ross, Jacques Roy, Caitlin Davies, Amy McFadden, and Pete Simonelli, and is simply amazing.

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Lofsamlegur dómur um Keisaramörgæsir í Kiljunni:

Mér finnst í gegnum bókina vera eins konar íhugun um meðal annars neysluhyggjuna og um það á hvaða leið mannsskepnan er. Það er svona heimsendafílingur í sumu í bókinni. Þetta er hugmyndaríkur höfundur, hún hefur gaman að þessu. Ég spái vel fyrir h...

***This is an early draft of a work-in-progress***

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In the morning Dad packed up the suitcases and loaded them into the car. Wynn was going to help him, but it was especially humid that morning and her hair was uncontrollable. She gathered it at the nape of her neck and pulled it th...

I was giving a keynote at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference several years ago and I mentioned this book and movie and got blank stares.

The book isn’t that great actually. It reads like a manifesto and lecturing. One of the few times the movie is better than the book.

You’ve got Burt Lancaster...

Wayne has begun research for his next book which will fictionalize the Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu, author of “The Art of War,” which has greatly influenced western and east Asian philosophy and military thinking.

The post Wayne’s Writing a Sequel! appeared first on Wayne Ng.

If you’ve been a member of our Facebook group (now moved to Discord), you are familiar with our group admin, Mercedes. Recently, Mercedes decided she wanted to recover her ‘Story of My Life’ series, and Dionne coul...

I go to schools a lot, have taught at universities and seen a ton of great kids and professors who’ve really sacrificed themselves to teach. A few years ago I worked for a few months at an Ivy League school. I expected a lot of questions about politics, history and literature. But that is not wh...

"God allows what we allow !!! God gave us; 'man' dominion over our own lives & over this earth. Man = mankind = male & female = Us, especially those who has been born again, which is how we were, but better, before Adam���...

Kicking off this week with some exciting and wonderful news– RYAN AND I ARE ENGAGED!!! OMG! He proposed on March 8th (story to come!) and we’ve been keeping it a bit of a secret just so we can have time to enjoy before the planning and madness starts. Which leads me to this– we need your help! Al...

Brass Ep. 50

Metallic fish were strewn across the street outside the chip shop. Iron nudged the handlebars of a motorcycle with her nose. ‘Triumph’ embossed on the petrol tank. The rest of the bike had sunk into the dirt road.

“On Fridays, two shoals of robot fish riding motorcycles...

This is a reblog from Just Jane 1813.  I enjoyed the first book by this author / in this series (though I’ve heard this one can stand on its own), but I’ll admit that I have REALLY been looking forward to this one because they are officially done with all P&P canon events and now it’s all ori...

◇「泰山石敢當」五個字，小時候不懂的，以為拿了泰山的石，也敢拿去當舖撒野。原來不對。泰山有個人姓石，名敢當，勇得不得，惡魔看到他也要避開，所以後人在石上刻著他的名字，放在牆角，就能辟邪。我也即刻買了一塊。鬼怪事，已落伍；要辟，辟些撩事生非的八婆可也。

◇傳說中，泰姬陵在月圓的晚上看最美麗。但是，它始終是一個墓墳，帶著不祥，要是情侶在一起看到，便注定要分開的。我曾經和一個女人來過這裏，我以為要分手便要分得美，她才不會恨我。果然，她沒埋怨過，但是我忘不了她，所以再回這裏。

◇我在台灣生活時，走去鄉下遇到廟會，吃那種所謂的「拜拜」，真的是把任何陌生的過路客都拉去大魚大肉，非常熱情。對宗教也有強烈的...