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Today at Grab the Lapels a new Meet the Writer post is up! Kim Koga is a poet, performer, and computer coder. http://wp.me/p5KCbL-17I

Today, Heather Dorn, poetess of amazing linguistic feats, visits Grab the Lapels! http://grabthelapels.com/2016/04/04/m...

Project Gutenberg books are not an option when choosing which edition, but this one has the page number as close as I can get it. My P.G. copy has 289 pages.

There are 348 pages in this book, not 300.

Police officers who approach rape cases in this way are likely to turn up other crimes. And when prosecutors have evidence of multiple victims, it becomes much harder for defense attorneys to attack any single victim's credibility--the time-honored rape defense that so often results in acquittal.

"The focus of this investigation shouldn't simply be this one, seemingly isolated rape," [David Lisak explains]. "It should be 'Who is this suspect? Who can tell us what he's reall like? Who are the other women he may have raped?' Detectives need to subpoena e-mail accounts, look into the suspect's Facebook friends."

"When you have a victim who is willing to go the distance and you shut her down, what does that say to other victims? 'Don't bother'? When cops and prosecutors fail to aggressively pursue sexual-assault cases ... it sends a message to sexual predators that women are fair game and can be raped with impunity."

I already feel disgusting.

"Cocky as ever--and unaware of how much his actions have aided the civil rights cause--[Bull] Connor struts through Kelly Ingram Park. Connor urged his men to let whites near the demonstrations. 'I want them to see the dogs work,' he said" (102).

My former student Jennifer Vosters reviewed Tides by Betsy Cornwell at Grab the Lapels! Tides is a fantasy coming-of-age novel about selkies. Ever heard of them? http://wp.me/s5KCbL-tides

Today, I posted an interview with author Rebecca Brooks, who writes honest, yet hot-and-heavy romance novels. Check out how she went from Ph.D. to sex at http://grabthelapels.com/2016/03/08/m...

Fiona Mitchell talks about writing and how to keep writing at Grab the Lapels: http://grabthelapels.com/2016/02/12/m...

Debra Di Blasi continues to work on mind-blowing fiction and nonfiction. Read our interview at: http://grabthelapels.com/2016/02/08/m...

Husband keeps asking, "Does it get happy?"

Review coming soon, but the book's not entirely colored!

What do you think of the new look at grabthelapels.com ? I made a static home page and changed the background to look more my style!

Still coloring.

I've gone rogue.

I'm on page 42, but I'm going to stop. I teach commission in college and thus am too aware of things like the author making assumptions, like how there is no evidence of how Moreau's family felt the day he became a priest, but we can assume, or how the author leads conversations by deciding what was good/bad instead of reporting information without bias, which is what I expect as a reader of a biography.

I've decided to just color by, well, color. I'm doing the girl's skin on all the pages. I'll go back later and do her dress, etc. I got worn out coloring the little teeny designs on the wall paper on the first page. If I didn't change tactics, I would still BE on the first page.

Still on page 1. Adult coloring a slow business.