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A gossip queen dissecting politics? A political pundit musing about sports? A romance novelist waxing poetic on music? You read it here first... see what your favorite literary personalities have to say about life beyond books.

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Just Outside My Window

By Anna Hays - May 18, 2009

There is a secret world that I share every time I sit down to write. It's just outside my window. And it's wild. I mean, I have experienced some crazy Los Angeles wildlife in my own backyard. I've outsmarted squirrels so I could rescue the last remaining piece of fruit on my old fig tree. I've stared down gnarly raccoons that dared to poo in my kids' plastic turtle pool. I've...

A book for all seasons

By Jennifer Echols - May 13, 2009

Do you look for seasonal books--a summer novel to read in summer, a Christmas novel to read at Christmas--or are you just jonesing for the next great story? Come discuss at the Simon Pulse Romantic Comedies Blog.

By Dennis Fried - May 13, 2009

Hi all my friend and fans, I hope you're all doing better than I am. I'm confused by the English language. How come if I'm dog-tired I take a cat-nap? And how come after a bad fire one human says "the house burned up" and another human says "the house burned down" and they're talking about the same house and the same fire? And how come when humans are disgusted sometimes they...

LA Times Book Festival 09 -

By Julia DeVillers - May 6, 2009

For the first time, I live-twittered an event--the LA Times Book festival. Ok, that was practically the first time I'd twittered, period. But it was my incentive to take pictures along the way. I'm so bad at taking pictures and documenting things. But I did it! And it was kind of addicting, so expect more posts soon. Click on the link below to check out some of the amazing...

WHY I WOULD RATHER BE A MATHEMATICIAN THAN A WRITER

By Richard Lewis - May 5, 2009

Consider Shakespeare. His name seems immortal. As long as there exist human beings and words, it is almost certain that Shakespeare will remain the bane of every high school student who has to study "Hamlet" in Lit class. Consider, on the other hand, L. E. J. Brouwer. Who? What, you don't know? The Brouwer of the fixed point theorem? This is a very important...

Win Ruth's brownies by entering my Mother's Day contest!

By Susan Rebecca White - April 28, 2009

Mother’s Day Contest My sister, Lauren Myracle, YA author extraordinaire, has a fantastic new book coming out titled Peace, Love and Baby Ducks. To celebrate its May 14th release she is running a ducky contest on her website. Check it out at http://laurenmyracle.com/blog.html. Lauren is having so much fun with her contest that I decided to run one, too…and so, (drum...

FOUR EASTER STORIES -- EASTER SUNDAY

By Richard Lewis - April 24, 2009

As the son of American missionaries in the 1960s, who went to Christian boarding school, I grew up with devotions, church, Bible study, youth groups as a big part of my family and social life. I had a hard time with Bible studies because I a) I never really liked being told what to I had to believe and b) I was the type who could point out possible different interpretations...

A Serious Gap in The Vampire Literature

By Richard Lewis - April 24, 2009

A serious gap exists in the vampire literature. Where are the born-again evangelical vampires? This oversight bothered me sufficiently last night that I couldn't sleep. Someone really ought to tell their story. What would such a story entail? I imagine that a vampire evangelical would be similar to a gay evangelical – one must not practice the sin. Plus there would...

By Farai Chideya - April 23, 2009

Man, I am workin' hard with Christine (Saunders of the publicity department) to figure out how to get the message across for the book. Releasing books is always hard for me because I am used to being the one getting pitched. As a journalist, I get dozens of books for every single one I can put on the radio or write about. Now I am in that "Survivor: Book Edition" mode and I am...

My Next Book, due April 2010

By Gwyn Cready - April 22, 2009

In my next book (working title: Stripped Bare,) seventeenth-century painter Peter Lely comes back to life to settle the hash of Ava Stratford, the author of The Girl With a Coral Earring, whose series of sexy, tell-all biographies is driving the dead art world nuts. Lely has earned fame and wealth as the royal portraitist to Charles II, but his reputation has been made in the...

The Four Qualities Of Mystic Cool

By Don Joseph Goewey - April 22, 2009

Our Brain At Its Absolute Best When neuroscientists tested brain activity in Tibetan monks, they found inner peace had significantly expanded the usual networks that generate higher order brain function. These networks were larger and more fully integrated than brain scans show on the average person, with increased blood flow to the region. As a result, brain function in...

By Dennis Fried - April 20, 2009

Hello all my friends and fans, I hope you are all doing well. But if you're not, please don't complain to me about it because I don't have time. Right now I'm sleepy after a nice breakfast of steak and eggs, and I plan to take a nap until it's time for my afternoon snack. I really don't see much point in being awake between meals, do you? Please check back soon as I'll be...

Where To Go For My Daily Blog

By Spencer Quinn - April 20, 2009

www.chetthedog.com

FOUR EASTER STORIES -- GOOD FRIDAY

By Richard Lewis - April 10, 2009

As the son of American missionaries in the 1960s, who went to Christian boarding school, I grew up with devotions, church, Bible study, youth groups as a big part of my family and social life. I had a hard time with Bible studies because I a) I never really liked being told what to I had to believe and b) I was the type who could point out possible different interpretations...

THE WINDS OF DUNE Copy-Edit and UK Jacket Text

By Kevin J. Anderson - April 9, 2009

Brian Herbert and I have each received the manuscript of THE WINDS OF DUNE, which has been marked-up by the copy editor for spelling, punctuation, and consistency. By the time we deliver a new DUNE ms., it has been studied and proofed so many times that it’s usually fairly clean. For WINDS, we have a new copy editor who seems to be unfamiliar with the series, either our new...

PALM SUNDAY -- HOMECOMING

By Richard Lewis - April 7, 2009

As the son of American missionaries in the 1960s, who went to Christian boarding school, I grew up with devotions, church, Bible study, youth groups as a big part of my family and social life. I had a hard time with Bible studies because I a) I never really liked being told what to I had to believe and b) I was the type who could point out possible different interpretations...

It's just another day. . .

By Ellen Wittlinger - April 7, 2009

Just want to say HI to any visitors to this page! I'm sitting here listening to Eva Cassidy's album SONGBIRD which I recommend to anyone in a pensive mood on a rainy day like this one. My stinky dog has just finished eating a rug and a photograph of me and my husband. Sated, he sleeps in my office chair, shedding his silky black and white fur on everything, waiting for dinner. I...

FOUR EASTER STORIES -- LENT

By Richard Lewis - April 6, 2009

As the son of American missionaries in the 1960s, who went to Christian boarding school, I grew up with devotions, church, Bible study, youth groups as a big part of my family and social life. I had a hard time with Bible studies because I a) I never really liked being told what to I had to believe and b) I was the type who could point out possible different interpretations...

BOOKS THAT INFLUENCED ME AS A BOY IN BALI

By Richard Lewis - April 2, 2009

The small public transport bemo was packed. Scrunched on the lengthwise benches were a couple dozen Balinese, an American hippy, and me, the thirteen-year-old son of missionaries. In the aisle were baskets of coconuts, chickens tied by their legs, a piglet in its bamboo cage, and the hippy's backpack. It was 1969. Hippies had just discovered Bali, an island where I'd been born...

TWITTER versions of four famous novels

By Richard Lewis - April 2, 2009

In case you don’t know, Twitter is this new icon of our technological age wherein we can tell the whole world, in 140 characters, what we are doing at any instant. All religions have their Anti-Figure (the most famous example being the Anti-Christ). Twitter is the antithesis of Zen. I mean, instead of enjoying the Zen moment of a subway ride, you decide to twitchily Twitter...

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