Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Come Play In My Backyard

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Folks: Here's an interesting statistic: In the film industry, it is believed that: Happy Endings make more money than any other type. (P...

Come Play In My Backyard

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Folks: Here's an interesting statistic: In the film industry, it is believed that: Happy Endings make more money than any other ty...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Jurassic Passions: A Look at Character and Motivation

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A dinosaur came into my online classroom a while back, courtesy of one of my students, Celia. Now, let me make clear right up front that I w...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Insufficient Mating Material--embarrassing things to ask dignified people

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Reviews are starting to come in for Insufficient Mating Material, and --much too late-- I'm having visions of readers sidling up to libr...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Interspecies Cooperation

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I'm almost finished rereading WIZARDS AT WAR, the latest in Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" series. In this novel the teenag...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Susan Kearney News

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Hi, I'm pleased to announce I just sold two more books to Tor. In 2008 SOLAR HEAT will be available , my sequel to ISLAND HEAT and in t...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

More than you want to know!

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Folks: I've been very busy this week with mundane life, but also several writing projects active at once. But I got a nice surprise that...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

101 Uses for Email Spammers

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This is a blog about writing. This is a blog about how authors sometimes use unusual sources for characters' names. This is a blog about...
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

The best swordfighting scenes

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What do Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day , Roger Moore in Moonraker , Sean Connery in Highlander , Chris O'Donnell in The Three Muskete...
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Friday, November 10, 2006

Shooting Star...Ruben's crash

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Ruben set the angle to enter the atmosphere and searched for his water bottle. It wasn’t in its usual place and he recalled that he had for...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Star-Crossed Lovers

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In the latest ROMANTIC TIMES, I read about MaryJanice Davidson's forthcoming mermaid novel. Her heroine is only half mermaid and therefo...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Invective and Elimination -- soooo Romantic

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Folks: The last two posts here are very typical of what writers in general spend their time thinking about -- invective (or anthropology and...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Part Deux: Swearing in Alien Tongues

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Is everything okay? An innocuous question; one posed daily, if not hourly in our society. Yet several years ago, answering that question alm...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Worldbuilding with my head in a bathroom fixture

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Did we ever seen anyone go to the toilet on Star Trek (TM)? I mean that in all sincerity and with the greatest of respect, and in the best p...
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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Shooting Star

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Here's an exerpt from my December release Shooting Star. It was parade day. It was also his birthday. The boy, impatient with the ma...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Differences or Defects?

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Recently Gallaudet University, a distinguished college for the deaf in Maryland, revoked the contract of its prospective president partly be...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Eye of the Beholder/ Place of the Servant

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Folks: EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Linnea made a very important point in the blog entry before this one. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When ...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Eye of the Beholder

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First of all, I know that's somewhat the title of a really great Julie E Czerneda book, but that's not what I'm going to blog ab...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Insufficient Mating Material (excerpt)

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Insufficient Mating Material by Rowena Cherry copyright Rowena Cherry ISBN 0-505-52711-1; LoveSpell 1/31/07 All rights reserved. This unco...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

My Favorite Earthling (instalment #3)

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Readers may remember that Sue's last chapter ended with the gorgous tycoon and weekend National guard pilot (call sign Prince) sitting i...
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