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Judith Krantz, the prolific author and novelist whose salacious stories of sex and excess defined the 1980s, died on June 22, 2019. She was 91 years old. Scorned by “serious” writers and readers for her books that were widely considered Harlequin-esque pablum, she was also partly responsible for...

Your game room is probably pretty cool. But you can do better with your trinket display situation, right? Here I show you how to DIY some game room shelves using cigar boxes. The shadowbox nature of the game room shelves means you can put these things in all the nooks and crannies of your game […...

After years of struggling in the Chicago theater scene, ambitious actress Kira Rascher finally lands the role of a lifetime. The catch? Starring in Temper means working with Malcolm Mercer, a mercurial director who’s known for pushing his performers past their limits—onstage and off.

Kira’s convin...

Right after I had to make the heart-wrenching decision last month to let Gidget go due to congestive heart failure I heard these words from the song, Seasons in the Sun, pop into my head: We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. I know it was Gidget letting me know it was time and it w...

June

She stood at the bottom of a long, sloped driveway. On her right was a large wooden letterbox and to her left was a marble statue of the Madonna and child. The baby had healthy rolls of fat and an old wise face. The virgin looked serene. The convent was beyond the statue, at the top of the hi...

Every day, we see thousands of people visiting our two world-class attractions, the Ark Encounter, and the Creation Museum. There���s so much to do at either attraction���and now, each weekend (Friday and Saturday) this summer, there���s even more for the whole family to enjoy at the Ark Encount...

This announcement just ran in Publishers Weekly:

“Amy Fitzgerald at Lerner/Carolrhoda has bought Ginger Garrett’s middle-grade novel Name Tags and Other Terrible Ideas (Most of Them Mine). When sixth grader Lizbeth finds her plans to get rid of her father’s new girlfriend and make friends at her n...

Susan Laurie was a hopeless alcoholic. She had resigned herself to an early death as she simply could not stop drinking, despite multiple attempts at Alcoholics Anonymous, hypnotherapy, counselling sessions, and stints in rehab.

Something that had started so innoc...

The cucumbers we’ve been harvesting at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice are not your average cuke. They are specialty varieties, selected for their thin skins, small seed cavities, and c...

Al-Quran adalah kitab mukjizat yang tidak pernah terhenti
keajaibannya. Para ulama’ telahpun membincangkan sisi kemukjizatannya yang
terdiri dari pelbagai bentuk. Dan antara bentuk yang paling dominan adalah kemukjizatan
kefasihan bahasanya yang merangkumi setiap huruf, perkataan dan ayat al-Quran.

D...

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I am so proud to announce that the front cover for my upcoming novel, What Death Taught Terrence, is HERE… and I happen to think it’s beautiful. I’d love to hear your thoughts, readers! We’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but everyone does it. Does this coer say...

It will soon be that time of year again (Friday, July 12, through Sunday, July 14), when I and many other Star Trek literary scribblers converge upon the  Hunt Valley Inn (known these days as the Delta Hotels Baltimore Hunt Valley) in Hunt Valley, Md., for the fan-run con known as Shore Leave. If...

As much as I like cooking for other people, I REALLY like cooking for myself. It’s a chance to really tap into how I’m feeling in a particular moment, what I’m craving, and then to give myself exactly that.

There’s an actual an art to knowing what you want (believe me, I talk about it a lot in the...

I loved this work by Jai Pietryka! He loves wolves and he loves my books! That makes him a hero in my book! The coat of arms bears the name of wolves lupus garou, that I created, so that is so cool!

I had to do the marketing materials for Billionaire She-Wolf, get word c...

Collision of Worlds

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El hombre que nunca existió
GUSTAVO A. VIVAS GARCÍA
El Día, 25 de junio de 2019

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Commonly Prescribed Meds Could Raise Dementia Risk (WebMD):

“Doctors often prescribe anticholinergic drugs for a variety of ills. But a new study suggests they may increase the risk of dementia in older patients.

These medicines include everything from Benadryl (diphenhydramine) to certain...

As I re-read Amanda Coplin’s The Orcharist (2012), I’m reminded–as I always am when I read a great book a second or third time–of the treasures the author’s words present that might be overlooked the first time through by reader’s focus on the plot.

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“Ordinary people also go to war.” – Elizabeth Bear

It’s been a week since I got exercised about the Fourth Street panel about “ordinary people,” and I’m still exercised about it, so you get a blog post on the subject,

The first problem is, as always, definition. “Writing about ordinary people”...

Ships bell – When people mention the name of Martin Bormann most baby-boomers will know who he is. They will also be quick to tell you that even though there is waste around the world to find him. He must have died in 1945, proved they said, with the discovery of bones in the human […]

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