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Top Picks Thursday 07-18-2013
Summer around here has been alternately trying to drown us or broil us. Stay cool, everyone! In great news for all of our readers, a new study shows that bookworms have better brains in old age and are...
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Top Picks Thursday 08-08-2013
We love us some bookstores here at the Author Chronicles. Take a look at some truly novel bookstores featured in the Wall Street Journal; and find out about a delicious new strategy keeping patrons in...
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Top Picks Thursday 01-09-2014
Welcome to our first full Top Picks Thursday of the year! I hope all of our readers are weathering the cold well. Dan Holloway asks: what do you want from writing in 2014?; Alice Leiper starts a new...
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Top Picks Thursday 01-30-2014
The ground is still snow-covered and we’re still in the deep freeze, but we missed the brunt of Tuesday’s storm, which hit the South so hard. We’re getting so used to the cold that when the temperature...
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Practicing what I preach
I love the subject of writing. I find that whenever someone who is interested in writing (and hasn’t yet gotten started) asks me about it, I pull out my inner professor and put on a display of all the...
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Top Picks Thursday 02-27-2014
Welcome to the last round-up in February! Author James Patterson is paying it forward—literally. He pledged to send $1 million to independent bookstores, and the first installment of over $267,000 went...
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Top Picks Thursday 03-20-2014
Welcome to the first day of Spring! Authors were all abuzz about Amtrak’s Writer’s Residency program–until they read the fine print. Victoria Strauss details the rights concerns of the Amtrak Residency...
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Top Picks Thursday 04-03-2014
Welcome to the first April links round-up! And spring may finally have come to our neck of the woods. Gray, rainy, chilly spring, but it’s not snow and it’s above freezing, so we will celebrate! Do you...
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Managing a writing regimen when your career gets in the way
I’m in the IT field, short for Information Technology (the world of software development, configuration, & support). As many of my peers will attest, this career is one that occasionally doesn’t...
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Why do you write?
I recently came across a site where a publisher asked a number of authors why they write, and I found the responses to be very informative. As wide-ranging as they were, I saw their reasons as falling...
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Top Picks Thursday 09-18-2014
Welcome to another week of craft, business, and fun writing-related links! Speculative fiction author Graham Joyce died in the UK this week. Also in the UK, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014...
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Practicing what I preach
I love the subject of writing. I find that whenever someone who is interested in writing (and hasn’t yet gotten started) asks me about it, I pull out my inner professor and put on a display of all the...
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Practicing what I preach
I love the subject of writing. I find that whenever someone who is interested in writing (and hasn’t yet gotten started) asks me about it, I pull out my inner professor and put on a display of all the...
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Practicing what I preach
I love the subject of writing. I find that whenever someone who is interested in writing (and hasn’t yet gotten started) asks me about it, I pull out my inner professor and put on a display of all the...
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PhilCon 2014
This year was the 78th anniversary of the world’s first and longest-running conference on science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The panels cover literature, art, television, film, anime, comics,...
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Top Picks Thursday 12-18-2014
Welcome to this week’s links! Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate. Amy Nichols discusses a scary New Year and what came out of it in lang may yer lum reek. Buzzfeed adds to the book list parade with...
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Top Picks Thursday 01-08-2015
Welcome to 2015! It’s a new year with new possibilities. To help us take advantage of our possibilities, Jami Gold focuses on how to continue our successes from 2014, Jennie Nash has 13 necessary steps...
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Top Picks Thursday 03-12-2015
Welcome to this week’s link-fest! Spring is teasing us here—I hope it sticks around! In sad news, Terry Pratchett has died at age 66. SCBWI announces the 2015 Golden Kite and Sid Fleischman Awards, and...
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Top Picks Thursday 04-02-2015
Welcome to our weekly links round-up! April is National Poetry Month! Any poets might want to participate in Writer’s Digest’s Poetic Asides PAD (poem a day) Challenge. How many times have we wanted to...
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Top Picks Thursday 05-28-2015
Welcome to our final links round-up in May! Memorial Day marked the unofficial start of summer, and many of us are looking forward to true summer. SCBWI announced the 2015 Crystal Kite Award winners....
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