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Review: Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

Huge hype. Best-seller lists. Major motion picture. And for the life of me I cannot fathom why Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer is so widely acclaimed.

By page 17 I'd found four grammatical errors. Stephenie, my dear, one is tanned, not tan. One is not tan, as in pink, blue or green. One is tanned, as in leathery. Where were the editors? Where were the proof-readers? Did you not proof the galleys yourself? Ah, but, one would assume you knew the difference between tan, the colour, and tanned, the stat

The Authors Show

Yesterday I was interviewed by Don McCauley from The Authors Show, an online radio and TV network owned an operated by WNB NetworkWest.com With 65,000 people visiting the site every day, the network is yet one more example of a growing shift toward Internet-based information and product delivery, and a free, powerful marketing tool for authors and entrepreneurs.

Don and I chatted via a taped conference call which will now be in production with technicians at The Authors Show. The result of that