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Get a FREE novel (The Sunday Salon Friday Edition)

by Rob @ 52 Novels on January 4, 2008

Looks like you’re new here. Get all the fun of 52 Novels as it happens and subscribe by e-mail or subscribe using your favorite RSS feed reader. Might as well. Don’t cost nothin.A couple of weeks ago I wrote about THE CONCRETE MAZE, by Steven Torres. Yesterday, Steven spent some time Googling himself and found [...]

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Download another free e-book from JA Konrath

by Rob @ 52 Novels on November 21, 2007

A couple months back, JA Konrath—author of the Jack Daniels mystery series—made a few of his previously unpublished novels available for download. Way back then he also promised a short story compilation called 55 PROOF.
I just noticed today that he’s finally made it available. You can download it here or directly from JA… whichever you [...]

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Could something like TechStars work for novelists?

by Rob @ 52 Novels on November 21, 2007

I remember reading a while back about a Boulder-based technology startup incubator called TechStars.
It sounded like a decent idea: invite young technology entrepreneurs to apply for up to $15,000 in seed money, mentoring from other young technology entrepreneurs, and great networking connections to help insure their success… all in exchange for five percent of the [...]

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The mechanics of putting my foot in my mouth

by Rob @ 52 Novels on November 19, 2007

I think I may have offended my writing instructor. It was an accident. But it may have happened nonetheless.
Last week in my novel workshop we were discussing the assigned class reading… Chapter 4 from Robert Olen Butler’s FROM WHERE YOU DREAM, a segment called “Cinema of the Mind.”
In a nutshell, the book is a compendium [...]

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Give ’em hell, Pat

by Rob @ 52 Novels on November 2, 2007

Pat Conroy had this to say about writing and reading and writers and teachers… and people who like to ban books:
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with [...]

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