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EE's Autobiography 3

I remember it thusly; I just left Sunday morning church service with Dad, Mum and my older bothers Biff and Buster when Doc Tiffany Nunez and her sycophantic interns climbed from their SUV like clowns at the circus. They hooted, woofed and flexed their muscle-bound physiques under spandex unitards, Old Spice and liniment filling the air like belligerent smog.

"Heigh-Ho, it's time for our weekly excursion to Uncle Felipe's."

"Ho-Hum, another day of weightlifting at Uncle Fallopian's barnyard with

EE's Autobiography 2

Ah, I do love writing in my personal, hidden blog. Some day, when I’m ready, I will publish another book using excerpts from this blog. I know the Minions will buy it. They’ll buy anything. Especially my excuses for rejecting their queries and manuscripts.

Ha! Some day I just might tell them I’ve never read a word. Nah. It’s too much fun knowing they’ll keep sending more in with higher and higher hopes. None of them will ever make it past my rubber stamps.

Which reminds me, I saw my first Robin t

EE's Autobiography 1

I can remember the first rejection I ever doled out as if it was yesterday. It was a defining moment in my life in general, and my future career in specific. I was not yet recognized as the literary genius I am today, but my talent was there nonetheless. All I lacked was a blog to communicate with my minions.

It was a short manuscript. Boring, non-descriptive, and un-original. In truth the entire work reeked of plagiarism, as if ninety percent of the word count was from some template. Words thou

Success Story

Deb Hoag reports:

Ta Da! Crashin' the Real [New Beginning 559:] will be making its US debut on May 11 (Mother's Day). There's also a draft website up, featuring the front and back cover art, and the back-cover text: http://www.doghornpublishing.com/crashin.htm.[image error]

Book Chat

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Saturday Film Series

Actresses, production assistants, best boys . . . it's amazing how many people have a hand in Evil Editor's Shorts.




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New Beginning 618

Sechra stopped just below the hill-crest. She didn’t know what might wait on the other side, and she’d be foolish to meet it with her breath ragged and her heart pounding from the steep climb. She breathed deeply. The smell of ripe blackberries rose warm and sharp from the bramble thickets. Winter would be on them soon, whether or not she was here to know it. She didn’t know how long it took to find the hidden spring, or whether, having found it, you could come back.

Well, and she didn’t know if

Cartoon 346

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Feedback Request

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Writing Exercise

Submit an excerpt from the autobiography of Evil Editor. It'll be written in 1st person, but it can sound like a scene from EE's life, or like nonfiction reporting.

300 words max, Deadline Sunday, 10 AM eastern.

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