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The Sunday Salon: Wanna win a book?

April 20, 2008

Free books are good.
And Lynn Viehl agrees. That’s why she’s decided to grant a BookWish. Just drop by her blog before midnight EST on April 21, 2008… leave a comment in this thread.
Sometime after the deadline she’ll draw a name at random and the winner gets a book of their choice from any [...]

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The Sunday Salon and I’m a FOMAC

February 3, 2008

FOMAC.
That’s fancy talk for Fan of Max Allan Collins.
Really, who wouldn’t be? After all he’s been in the crime fiction game longer than just about everyone else—except for maybe Elmore Leonard—and he’s done as much as anyone can do:

Comic books and graphic novels (ROAD TO PERDITION)
TV tie-ins (CSI, BONES, CRIMINAL MINDS)
Awesome series [...]

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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 learned [...]

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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 just [...]

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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 supplies last [...]

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The Sunday Salon and “No news is good news” embodied

December 16, 2007

Hard to believe it was a week ago that I last posted. The previous seven days flew by like… well, let’s just say it was fast.
I haven’t been taking a break from 52 Novels. In fact, I’ve been working on the project a lot:

I finished THE CONCRETE MAZE a few days ago and moved on [...]

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