
I am delighted to announce thatMy collection of flash fiction, Joy in a Box, is now available in print. This is the perfect book to give as a gift to someone who likes to read stories that are short and sweet, because each story only takes two to three minutes to read. Put it in the downstairs re...
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My book of very short stories is finally ready for purchase, but only on this site so far. Shipping is extra via UPS. It's a great "potty break" or coffee break book. :) http://www.wordclay.com/BookStore/BookSt oreBookDetails.aspx?bookid=53402
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A mother has lost her child and cannot deal with the grief; a stripper is given the chance of freedom; fear grips a young boy in Africa . . . Read these short snippets of fiction and be prepared to gasp, giggle, and groan. ...

For those of you who like to sound as if you are from an elite group of academia, here is a handy-dandy tool to help you out. &nb...
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Smashwords is a great idea Mark Coker thought up. Why not set up a site on which writers can upload their e-books for free and then sell them to the public? Mark’s beta site went public on May 6, 2008. Since then, the company has added support services, tagging, coupon generators, publishers’ pag...
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Stephen Mansfield, the renowned biographer of presidents and dead men, has written a book that might cause the deeply religious to twitch an eyebrow or two. It’s called The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World, and it is a testament to the lives and philanth...
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After living in the US for over fourteen years, I don’t tend to notice the difference in UK and US English until I go home for a week or so. Now that NaNoWriMo is driving me to write a new novel that’s set in Ireland, I’ve found that it’s time to give you guys a crash course in UK/European Englis...
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Inksnatcher NaNo-ers, if I can write 800 words of crap every hour, SO CAN YOU!! :D

Inksnatcher Only a few hours until NaNoWriMo starts. I'm still second guessing my storyline. Add me as SallyH on the NaNo site, although I can't really write until Mom leaves next Sat.

Sometimes others just do a better job explaining things, and in this case, it’s Joanne Dolles of “The Facebook Insider.” She tells you:How to stop annoying everyone else with lists of the groups you’ve just joined and the new friends you’ve just made. Unfortunately,...
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Inksnatcher conflate \kuhn-FLAYT\, transitive verb:1. To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld. 2. To combine (as two readings of a text) into one whole.

There are written words that people misspell, and seeing them causes my fists to form and my brain to scream. . . . Here are the culprits:AlotThere is no such word.A lotI ate a lot of candy.Her brother is a lot nicer.She jogs a lot.———-Your (these things belong to you)Your purse...
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Inksnatcher quag·mire: soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot 2 : a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position : predicament obsolete quag (“‘bog, marsh’”) (a variant of Middle English quabbe (“‘a marsh, bog’”), from Old English; *cwabba (“‘shake, tremble like something soft and flabby’”); mire (from Middle English, from Old Norse mýrr, akin to Old English mōs (“‘marsh’”) and English moss).

ConceptFor my last novel and this one, I got the basic idea from quotes. Last time around, I found this quote:“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” ~ Blaise PascalI had spent some time around a friend who had once been a sniper, and he talked a lot about the secrecy ...
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