From the monthly archives:

January 2008

The version suicides, Part 1

January 30, 2008

Image by Thomas Hawk, via Creative Commons. Courtesy of flickr. Sorry. That headline’s bad. Really bad.1 But try and set that aside for a moment and follow along with me, because this series just might save your ass. First, though, close your eyes and imagine a world where writing projects—whether they’re novels or family holiday [...]

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Stupid cat

January 16, 2008

At a few minutes after 6:30 p.m. yesterday, my cat died. It’s the one that was overweight, half blind, and diabetic. The one that left nary a stitch of my home’s carpeting undamaged. Last week, Mrs. Novels and I made the tough decision to put her down. After nearly sixteen years, it was time. For [...]

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The Sunday Salon and the subtle art of sucking up

January 13, 2008

Tomorrow is Day One of my second novel workshop and I’m thrilled this time because I’ll be learning from Mario Acevedo. I don’t mean to be unkind to my previous workshop and its students. I had a blast, and there was so much talent in the room each week. I made some new friends… and [...]

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The Sunday Salon: Because it’s Sunday and salon-like

January 6, 2008

Currently, I’ve got my ears and nose inside a couple of books: BOOMSDAY, by Christopher Buckley, and SLIDE, by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. I have to admit that I’m not sold yet on BOOMSDAY. Granted, it’s the audio version so I’m not sure whether it’s the story itself or the reader, Janeane Garofalo. She’s [...]

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Get a FREE novel (The Sunday Salon Friday Edition)

January 4, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about THE CONCRETE MAZE, by Steven Torres. Yesterday, Steven spent some time Googling himself and found the post. He was kind and generous enough to make the following offer: If any of your readers are interested, I’d be happy to mail them out a copy as long as [...]

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New year…

January 2, 2008

Like the new theme? It’s the first of a few changes around here. I’ve got a few more tweaks to go… namely the image of the Communist field book on the home page, and adding easier access to the Now Reading stuff that was here in every prior version of 52 Novels. I also need [...]

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