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I love all things Mercedes Lackey, Kim Harrison, Shanna Swendson, Repairman Jack novels, James Rollins, John J. Nance, Sharon Shinn... oh I could list lots and lots of authors - but I don't have a specific fav book - I read ALOT of stuff, all over the place. I just love to read.
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2007 Parsec Awards needs sponsors for programme guide
The 2007 Parsec Awards, http://www.parsecawards.com/, are looking for a few good sponsors for the programme guide and other advertising. $50 will get you a color ad in the programme with an ad of 2.5x2.5". Posters may also be printed with sponsors on the bottom - we're just organizing it all.
The awards will be presented at Dragon*Con in late August. The awards recognize excellence in Speculative Fiction and Podiob
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Getting Ready to Print "The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction: Volume 1~First Contact"
And I don't know if I could have created a longer title!
So, I'm new to blogging, and not likely to be very consistent about it. I'm not a big journaler or anything, and often am so busy I don't dare take time out to thing, let alone plunk my thoughts into cyberspace, but I thought I would give it a go :)
So, a bit about the book - well, more about the publishing of the book since I have very little to do with the creative side. I laid this one o
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. My debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, and I am writing because I was hoping you might be willing to read it and post your thoughts on Amazon.com (or some of the other book review sites). If you're interested, I'd be more than willing to send you an e-book version by e-mail. Just let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
Thanks so much,
Chris
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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com
www.dragonmoonpress.com/PromoPDFS/digital_magic_freepdf.pdf
Available for your reading pleasure, we offer up two complete PDF Ebooks FREE OF CHARGE!
A Billibub Baddings Mystery: The Case of the Pitcher's Pendant, by Tee Morris
The second Billibub Baddings Mystery (the first was The Case of the Singing Sword)
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Digital Magic, by Philippa Ballantine
(a follow up to Chasing the Bard)
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Please download a copy of the PDF's, but more importantly, we ask that you TALK about them, and link to them, and give them away on your blog, your podcasts, your newsgroups, your social networking pages... anything you can think of. If you're especially creative about it, tell me about it on my Facebook page... random winners will win print copies of the book.
Our goal is to spread the word, and make a few author dreams come true on 08-08-08 - where we ask that if you enjoy the books, or, well, really, even if you don't, you'll pick up a copy or six, or twenty... or you get the idea!... from Amazon.com (the links to order are in the ebooks). We'd like to have Tee and Pip hit the bestseller list, and we're asking for your help. But please! DON'T order your copy until 08-08-08!
And thank you for your help... we appreciate it!
You sound very interesting although sci-fi isn't my genre
I'm going to check out you website this very minute!
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Robert Schwartz
author, Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?
www.CourageousSouls.com
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