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June 27, 2011
Not Going to Conference Conference 2011
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June 26, 2011
"Pioneers," Arthur W. Jose
Pioneers
There is no word of thanks to hear,
No word of praise to gain,
But we, that must, in sun and dust,
Tramp on across the plain:
We know not how the orders come,
Who bids the bugle blow …
But we, that may, track out the way
Our comrades soon shall go.
Far, far behind our army drags
The wagons and the guns;
Along the line, beneath the flags,
A noise of cheering runs;
Full-seen in all the blaze of noon
Set forth its proud array…
But we were up beneath the moon
And out...
June 24, 2011
Romance and Academia
I'm over at the Novelists, Inc. blog today, posting about romance in academia in relation to the IASPR conference in New York City.
I'll be at the conference next week, followed by RWA Nationals, but am not sure of my posting schedule here. I'm hoping to be able to share some photos.
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June 23, 2011
June 22, 2011
Times Square/Union Square Restaurants
For those who are attending the IASPR and RWA conferences in New York City next week, author Louisa Edwards compiled a list of recommended restaurants for the Times Square area, near the RWA conference hotel.
Sarah MacLean offers tips on how to leave Times Square.
Her Campus has a guide to the best new restaurants near NYU's Union Square campus, where the IASPR conference is being held. They also offer a guide to the Flatiron District (between Union Square and Gramercy).
Also in the...
June 20, 2011
Auction for L.A. Banks
It is with profound sadness that I received news that Philadelphia writer Leslie Esdaile (L.A. Banks) is gravely ill. Please know that as Leslie needs all of her energy in this fight, she is not able to receive visitors, answer emails, texts or phone calls, or receive flowers.
While your prayers and thoughts are most welcome and needed, a special support website, including an auction, has been set up in order to help Leslie with the mounting medical expenses facing her and her family...
June 19, 2011
"To His Dead Body," Siegfried Sassoon
To His Dead Body
When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried,
Groping for friendly hands, and clutched, and died,
Like racing smoke, swift from your lolling head
phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.
Yet, though my dreams that throng the darkened stair
Can bring me no report of how you fare,
Safe quit of wars, I speed you on your way
Up lonely, glimmering fields to find new day,
Slow-rising, saintless, confident and kind–
Dear, red-faced father God who lit your mind.
–Sieg...
June 17, 2011
My Youth With James Bond
I have a new post up at The Criminal Element Today: Bond Girl: A Juvenile Fleming Reader, about when I first read the Bond novels.
June 16, 2011
Posts at Heroes & Heartbreakers
I've been away recently on a family matter, but while I was gone, I had a couple new posts go live at Heroes and Heartbreakers: Tea With the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy and Stitch in Snow by Anne McCaffrey.
Tea with the Black Dragon is a fantasy novel with a strong romantic element as well as suspense; Stitch in Snow is one of McCaffrey's romance novels.
