Tag: fiction
group name: bordersbookclub
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March 05, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
I am very excited at the thought of being in a chatroom, of sorts, with readers. They always say that writing is a lonely business, and in a way that's quite true.
It's a little less lonely for . . . more
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . . more
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . . more
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February 14, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
I'm about half-way through a tour promoting my first novel, Love Walked In. Book tours are very interesting things. The readers I've met so far have all been kind. Many have also . . . more
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . . more
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October 01, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones, Lucky) reminds us that, while novels sometimes offer a comfortable escape, good fiction can also make us feel uncomfortable and conflicted, forcing us to confront our . . . more
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February 14, 2007 04:10 PM EST --
Hey Gather lit lovers, here's an opportunity to be the envy of your book club…
Thanks to our friends over at Borders, We have three signed advanced reader copies of Jodi Picoult's . . . more
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March 02, 2007 06:40 AM EST --
The “Nineteen Minutes” in Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is the time that it takes for Peter Houghton, the sensitive, awkward target of his classmates’ bullying and abuse, to . . . more
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April 08, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
I think "I don't want to join a book club" is the name of a book I read part of and disliked so never finished, but that's not what this is about.
I really don't want . . . more
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June 19, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
A spirited professional with hair as big as her heart, Stephanie Plum is back in Janet Evanovich's latest misadventure in bounty hunting, Lean Mean Thirteen. The bail bonds office of Plum's cousin . . . more
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November 26, 2007 07:16 PM EST --
For almost a decade, I wanted to write a novel with dog-rescue as the background, using the title THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR.
Many thousands of people do volunteer work for . . . more
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April 18, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
It's slated for 2009 release, and already The Hobbit's got more speculation surrounding it than Tony's fate in the final half-season of The Sopranos. A scandalous break-up between Peter Jackson . . . more
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January 28, 2008 09:52 AM EST --
Do you ever wonder what it'll be like when you get "The Call"? (Notice I didn't say "if you get "The Call." Positive energy, folks!) Do you wonder what you'll be doing, . . . more
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July 17, 2007 04:13 PM EDT --
Nothing made sense, Alex thought as she was stopped at the mountain intersection. Why weren’t there any road signs? The last three . . . more
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January 20, 2008 06:54 PM EST --
Into the Ocean
The plane moved steadily as if they never went through the storm. The passengers went back to whatever they had been doing before ignoring the dark clouds beneath them. Charity glared . . . more
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January 14, 2008 12:12 PM EST --
On Monday, January 21 st at 10 p.m. ET, bestselling crime fiction writer Jonathan Kellerman will reveal his favorite true crime story on Tru TV's series "Murder By the Book." . . . more
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May 29, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
People often ask me, "How did you find the time to write The Blood of Flowers when you were working? What motivated you to keep going?"
For most of the eight to nine years that I worked on the . . . more
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April 02, 2008 11:07 AM EDT --
I began reading Hush Money by Robert Parker last week. I'd never read his books but was curious because I liked things he said on his Web site. I read about half the book and felt I was wasting . . . more
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April 10, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
Don't forget, The Memory Keeper's Daughter will be a movie on Lifetime this Sasturday (4/12) at 9 p.m.
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September 16, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
With apologies to Judith Viorst.
Rewritten but originally written in 2006. Presented now for Back to School and Back to Pre-School.
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