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What makes your blog a great one?

One of the most important thing to your audience when it comes to having a website is your site being able to be interacted with as easy as possible. You don’t want your audience looking for everything around, but you want to put all you want them to…
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The Saint (The White Years #1) – The Original Sinners series #5

I cannot wait to read this book!  It has just been released in the UK (my former home), but those in the US have to wait a bit longer to get it on June 24th and Australia on June 6th.  You can always pre-order it here: The Saint: The Original…
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Fascinating attractions of Bangkok, the Capital City of Thailand

As the capital city of Thailand, Bangkok has its own attractions. Bangkok is known as one of the biggest city in the worlds with many populations. Bangkok is also considered as one of cosmopolitan cities in Asia so it has crowded nightlife. Besides that,…
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Belize – 5 Places to Live; 2 to Avoid

Belize – 5 Places to Live; 2 to Avoid By Suzan Haskins There are a lot of reasons you might want to be in Belize right now… For a tiny little country (only about the size of Massachusetts), it has much to offer, especially when it comes to scenery. Turquoise…
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The mystery of writing and the writing of mysteries

Frédérique Molay, author of The 7th Woman and Paris Homicide, talks about the mysteries of writing   When writing, everything and anything can serve as inspiration—a newspaper article, an odd crime, an anecdote, an unknown face. When an idea rises to the surface, when it imposes itself, it then gushes out until it overflows, flooding […]
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Interview with Emmy Nominated Writers/Executive Producers Steven Long Mitchell & Craig W. Van Sickle

In addition to the books, web site, fan fiction, etc., we are constantly looking for the next evolution of The Pretender on TV and film. The gears grind slowly as the fans know, but we’re working on many Pretender fronts for the future
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Book Review: The Great Game by D. R. Bell

By Mark Combs Title: The Great Game Author: D. R. Bell Genre: Thriller Series or Standalone: Standalone Blurb After years of patient preparation, a block of countries led by China and Russia stages an overnight financial coup to unseat the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.  Fortunes are made and lost in a matter […]
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Emmy Nominees Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle have outdone themselves with “The Pretender – Rebirth”, and I absolutely loved it. 5 stars!
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Holy mark of Cain, Dean Winchester is a demon

Dean’s death breathes new life into a dying show I caught the season finale of Supernatural the other night and have to say… WOW! After a pretty lacklustre season that only barely kept my attention, Kripke and Co delivered an absolute burner that has this formerly die-hard fan digging her fan-girl membership card back out of the garbage. […]
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