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Hilary Clinton has repeatedly denied that she will be running for President in 2008 but conservatives seem to want to make sure she doesn’t run or doesn’t win by bringing out lots of books to ruin her credibility. I don’t do politics but I did notice this latest anti-Hilary novel by Thomas D….
Monthly Archives: May 2006
50 Writing Tools
It is not recent news–these have been online since quite a couple of years–but since they were recommended to me by a fellow writer, I’ve never stopped checking these Fifty writing tools by Roy Peter Clark on Poynter Online. Perhaps they’ve been most useful to me due to English not being my mother tongue. Regardless,…
Expensive Books That Shouldn’t Be
I am still in the process of trying to find old children’s novels I loved and have been doing a good job. My biggest problem besides not being able to find the books on a certain website is the price. I can find the book I’m looking for and I can see it on sale…
Desperate Networks By Bill Carter
A book that I am looking forward to reading is titled Desperate Networks by Bill Carter, a New York Times reporter. I love to see the behind the scenes stuff on just about everything I’m interested in and this is one that I’m sure to love. From Publishers Weekly The power relationships of network television…
King Dork A Musicians Novel
King Dork is a novel written by musician Frank Portman and it follows a young man who spends most of his time thinking up imaginary bands, but that’s when he’s NOT insulting Catcher in the Rye. The book is getting some good reviews and is doing surprisingly well. Also if you go to the Amazon…
Cage of Stars By Jacquelyn Mitchard Review
Author Jacquelyn Mitchard wrote the book Deep End of the Ocean, which was turned into the movie. It was about a missing boy returning home years later as a young teen. The movie had Michelle Pfeiffer play the role of the mother and I liked the movie. Her new novel Cage of Stars is about…
New Accusations For Kaavya Viswanathan
I have been deciding to hold all judgement and see how this turns out for Kaavya Viswanathan, the young Harvard student and author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, who stands accused of stealing passages from not one but two of Megan McCafferty. Now a few hours after her…
Bad Twin Novel and Lost Theories
I explained before about the book Bad Twin by fictional author Gary Troup. The “author” is a fictional character from the tv series “Lost” and in February on the show, the Bad Twin manuscript was found. Alas we have the book, which is nothing at all like the show. It is a mystery about a…
Short Writing Career Erased
Kaavya Viswanathan’s novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” has been under much scrutiny since she was accused of stealing some passages from author Megan McCafferty’s “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings”. Viswanathan admitted to it may have happened but says if it did it was a mistake and…
Bad Twin By (Lost Author) Gary Troup, Hilary Aaron
Bad Twin By Gary Troup, Hilary Aaron If you are a fan of the tv show Lost, then you should know the author Gary Troup. He is a fictional character created for show. On Lost he is one of the missing passengers who crashed on or around the island and he is presumed dead. However some of the other characters…