Post from Lee Goldberg
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:00 pm
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“As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever dreamed up [...] leaving Travis McGee in the dust.” Kirkus, Starred Review My favorite, and most acclaimed book, THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGE, is now available in a Kindle…

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 10:31 am
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Journalist who came out of Africa to work at Scottish daily.

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Post from Lee Goldberg
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 4:49 am
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 Joe Konrath recently changed the covers for some of his weaker-selling Kindle books and saw his sales shoot up overnight. He suggested that I do the same thing for some of my books and I am following his advice. I just changed the covers for my sho…

Post from Writers Write
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:00 pm
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Geoffrey Fletcher stands next to his Oscar backstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre. Geoffrey Fletcher won Best Adapted Screenplay for his adpation of the novel Push by Sapphire. He is the first African American screenwriter to win an Academy Award. Fletcher beat out favorites Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner who wrote the script for Up in the Air. Fletcher is also an adjunct professor of film at Columbia University and NYU.



Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire was nominated in six categories and won two Oscars. The second Oscar went to actress Mo’Nique, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as an abusive mother.



You can find more coverage of the Oscars, including fashion coverage, on our sister site ShoppingBlog.com’s Oscar section.



Photo: Todd Wawrychuk/ (C) A.M.P.A.S.



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Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, March 8, 2010, 1:49 pm
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Post from Writers Anonymous
Monday, March 8, 2010, 11:47 am
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If you haven’t already joined, you may wonder why a writer would be interested in joining something like Twitter, Qwisk, or Facebook.  You also might wonder why a writer would want to start a blog.
In today’s socially networked world, writers have far more opportunities to connect with their target audience.  Before we talk about opportunities [...]

Post from Mike hussey
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:26 am
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Celtic Knot tattoo, with its multiple quizzical knots, has a dramatic and magical impact on the viewers and there is a subtle permutation and combination of shapes in Celtic Knot Tattoos.People generally sport with Celtic knot tattoos on various parts …

Post from Mike hussey
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:22 am
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Post from Mike hussey
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:17 am
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Worn in dark pursuit of pure love, Black heart tattoo represents sorrow or the dark nights of the soul. Black heart tattoo celebrates the common agony of the human kind out of breach of relationship and distress.Some people flaunt with black heart tatt…

Post from Mike hussey
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:07 am
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Post from Mike hussey
Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:55 am
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Hello kitty is a very famous cartoon character created by a Japanese company which is famous all over the world. Due to its popularity people started using their designs in various accessories which also gave rise to Hello Kitty tattoo.Many people opt …

Post from Mike hussey
Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:49 am
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Cherry tattoo is one of the oldest designs but it is still in fashion. The best part about Cherry tattoo is that they can be placed almost on any part of the body due to its small size.They are mostly chosen by women to denote as a sexual symbol. Apart…

Post from Writers Anonymous
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 6:22 pm
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Nate Notorious is one of our young, early members who is back after a long hiatus.  He began his return with this writing prompt response!
I watched as we drifted closer, We were on a boat drifting with no way to steer , drifting directly into a storm. This storm was no ordinary storm. This was [...]

Post from Lasting Tribute
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 1:49 pm
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Multi-talented American musician behind Sparklehorse.

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Post from Post Secret
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 6:09 am
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.Order Your Copy Today Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Booksense Borders Brookline Booksmith…

Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 1:51 am
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ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE has just announced the winners of their Readers Choice Awards for the best stories of 2009 and I am stunned, and pleased, to discovered my Artemis Monk story “The Case of the Piss-Poor Gold” made the list.First place:Mike…

Post from Writers Write
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 12:00 am
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The Awl wants to know why so many people hate Dave Eggers. Maria Bustillos did a Google search for the most hated authors and what she found was surprising. While there were only two results for “I Hate Jonathan Franzen” (which is amazing, considering how annoying he is), there are 3888 results for “I Hate Dave Eggers.”

Part of the hate accruing to Dave Eggers is undoubtedly due to crab-bucket syndrome, which is when there are a lot of rivals, e.g., writers who are struggling after success in the form of TED prizes and screenplay commissions, and then one of them actually succeeds, and the rest of his fellow-strivers and former comrades attempt to yank him back down again. In the case of Eggers this is commonly depicted as not just envy, but more like a sense that the litterati just ought to have a better representative. Better, somehow, in some way, than this seemingly self-promoting impresario.



As well, a great divide opened between youngs and olds on the issue of Eggers when Where the Wild Things Are finally emerged. Us olds don’t just detest twee, childish sentimentality. We would douse it in kerosene and throw a match on it, if we could.

Post from Mike hussey
Friday, March 5, 2010, 5:58 am
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Tribal butterfly tattoos are, in fact, a rejuvenation of the simple butterfly tattoo with its hidden meanings of hope, diligence, new life, transformation, resurrection, rebirth, and passion in a way the tribal art form injects in.Tribal butterfly tatt…

Post from Mike hussey
Friday, March 5, 2010, 5:55 am
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Post from Mike hussey
Friday, March 5, 2010, 5:48 am
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Inspiring lot of tattoo aficionados at large throughout the world, Polynesian Tattoo simply creates different abstract forms in black, red, green, or blue on different parts of the body of men and women in general.Polynesian Tattoos are the signs of co…