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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – My Inspirations for Willow Tree Tears.

With eight weeks to go before the launch of my western romance, Willow Tree Tears, I was asked to explain my inspirations for the narrative. So here goes. There are several. As many of you know I’m originally from England …

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Creative Edge Author Interview – Bob Brill

How has traveling across the US formed your storytelling? From my days as a child traveling by car from my first home in Pittsburgh, PA to Southern California, I would imagine confederate soldiers coming out of the swamps to attach …

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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – The Consummate Detective

This Thursday, we celebrate Sherlock Holmes Day and it brought to mind that there are many detective’s throughout literature, TV shows and movies, that we are drawn to. Now, before we go any further some of you may be questioning …

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Creative Edge Press Release – Athina Paris

Knight Kisses A captivating romance and thriller from the heart with critically acclaimed author, Athina Paris After losing her mother to cancer, Gabrielle swears off love. Because loving hurts too much when things go wrong. Then, she travels to Africa …

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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Personal Biographies

This week we celebrate National Biographer’s Day on the 16th. Many of us wonder if we could write our biography, or memoir. It seems such a daunting task, however a review of our lives for the sake of our family …

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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – The History of Book Making

The 8th May is Make a Book Day. The process has changed considerably from the first scrolls in the 4th Millennium BC, through to block printing on 800 AD to the invention of moveable type in 1000 – 1400 AD. …

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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – My Two Thousandth Blog Post

I have reason to celebrate today as this is my 2000 blog post. When I began this blog back on 8th August 2010, I had no idea what I was doing – literally! I posted tentatively with a simple Hello …

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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Hello to May -Reading and Writing

A new month is upon us, the year is rushing by and we have so much to accomplish. It is interesting that this month has several literary celebrations – Get Caught Reading Month, Mystery Month, National Share a Story Month …

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Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Expression Through Poetry

This week we celebrate two special poetry days – 28th Great Poetry Reading Day and 29th National Poem in Your Pocket Day. The “Epic of Gilgamesh” is thought to be the oldest recorded form of poetry. It was written in …

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Creative Edge Author Interview – S.A. Schneider

Oh, most definitely. Some of my favorite books were the Dragonlance series, which is from Dungeons and Dragons. And Star Wars – which is like wizard fantasy in space – is one of my all time favorite things. I’ve read …

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