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80What is Vacuum County all about?
Most authors are happy to be asked what their book is about. To me, this is a terrifying question, just like a few other seemingly simple questions: what is your profession, your nationality, your religion, your political affiliation? For those...
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72How to Make an Effective Book Trailer
The first truly effective book trailer that I ever saw was one for a book by K.M. Weiland, Behold the Dawn. It was just like a trailer for a movie, and it made you feel that you knew what kind of book it was, that you could almost taste it, without...
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62Unexpected Puppies
She was a full blooded Sheltie, a true beauty with a lustrous coat and a pedigree studded with a long line of illustrious ancestors. He was a wandering beagle who never stayed put. Nobody knew when or how they found each other, but their illicit...
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72How to Recognize Bad Legislation
Sometimes when a bad law is introduced, many good people have trouble recognizing that it is in fact a very bad law. How does this happen? I'll give you an example which is very important to me, because it could wipe out my family. But to most...
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69Saving a Seat for John Galt: The Atlas Shrugged Movie and Social Metaphysicians as part of the Neurotypical Crowd
Yesterday, my daughter and I attended opening night of the Atlas Shrugged movie. We had to plan this outing carefully. I bought the tickets in advance on Fandango, to make sure they wouldn't be sold out. I had Lawrence, my chimp sitter come in on...
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71Fiction that Departs from Society's Norms and Values
Should fiction preach to us? Should it establish certain values as desirable? Or should it simply dramatize conflicts that involve values and allow the reader to use his critical faculties to choose a side? I've always opted for the last choice in...
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75Photoworks is Closing
Photoworks is closing its doors on April 4, 2011. I have been sending them my photos since I was in grad school, which I started in the fall of 1991. But back then, they weren't called Photoworks. They were called Seattle Filmworks. I loved...
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77Searching for a Better Search Engine
Why do we need search engines at all? Why don't we just search the entire internet ourselves for what we are trying to find? I always thought that the reason we didn't was because it would take us so much more time than it would for a computer to do...
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83The Borders Bankruptcy and What it Means for Booksellers and Publishers
Borders Books filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 16, 2011. The factors leading up to the decision included ineffective use of resources, the inability to adapt to a changing market, and poor planning. One of the reasons that Borders has...
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73Press Release: John Wheatcroft has signed with Inverted-A for the publication of his new book
Texas County, Missouri. March 2, 2011. Inverted-A Press announced today that John Wheatcroft has signed a contract with them for the publication of his new book Portrait of a Lover. John Wheatcroft is the author of over twenty books in print,...
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