Tag: relationships
group name: fictionreaders
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February 04, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
For the record, I do not advocate hiring a hit man to avenge an ex-lover. I also don't recommend baking poison brownies and tasting them yourself. In fact, none of the retribution tools mentioned . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
I write about my obsessions. I have a lot of them so I stay pretty busy. Little Pink Raincoat is a prime example of dual obsessions: men and fashion. To me, they're inextricably linked. The book . . . more
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February 04, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
GOOD MAN HUNTING only took about ten days to write, but I played with ideas for writing it over the course of several years as different elements inspired me. Media such as current television shows and . . . more
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February 11, 2008 02:40 PM EST --
Single white female, mid thirties, body and face bare striking resemblance to Angelina Jolie, seeking hit man for long walks in the park, secret conversations after midnight, and surprise rendezvous'. . . . more
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February 19, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
Dear Fellow Gather Readers,
Lately, I've been reading stories on the Internet which lead me to believe that I wrote the wrong book. Silly me. Here I am spending all my time writing . . . more
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February 25, 2008 05:57 PM EST --
Marc Schultz wrote a blog about how the FBI came by to ask him questions after he was seen reading "questionable material" in a coffee shop. The comments that follow the article . . . more
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February 19, 2008 03:27 PM EST --
A prominent Dallas attorney recently said to me, "You know, you wouldn't have even talked to me in high school." I had two reactions to his comment. First, I thought he . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:57 AM EST --
I always wanted to write about my grandmother, a larger-than-life, Auntie Mame kind of figure who took me to Europe when I was 18. Though I had written essays and short stories about her, I needed a . . . more
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April 10, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
Before I was published, I got a lot of questions about why I was writing romance. "Don't you want to write a real book?" they'd say. Or, "Once you break in, you'll write something . . . more
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April 22, 2008 04:36 PM EDT --
One of my favorite parts about writing The Department of Lost and Found was writing about how Natalie, my protagonist, tracks down the five former loves of her life to determine what went wrong and what . . . more
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May 26, 2008 06:06 PM EDT --
The Safety of Secrets by Delaune Michel is about two young girls who become fast friends and promise each other that they will never reveal the terrible secret of what happened to them one summer. The . . . more
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July 11, 2008 01:38 PM EDT --
The Aftermath of Dreaming by DeLuane Michel
Yvette Broussard is nearing 30 and like many of us has issues. The biggest one is that lately she wakes up screaming. She isn't able . . . more
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February 11, 2008 05:27 PM EST --
One of the reasons I wrote the novel, GOOD MAN HUNTING, was because I wanted to illustrate the extreme measures society is willing to take when it comes to pursuing the opposite sex. Reality television . . . more
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April 29, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
Every once in a while – at a book reading or via email – I'll have a reader ask me, "What's the message that you hope to convey from this book?," and as silly as it seems, . . . more
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May 12, 2008 10:11 PM EDT --
I was excited when Gather sent me this book, based on the premise of the book itself and the blurb I had read about it. I couldn't wait to read it. I had never read a Mameve Medwed book . . . more
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June 06, 2008 01:29 AM EDT --
This is my bad date story for the Bad Date contest on Fiction Readers
It was back in 1998. I met this guy my first year of college. He was pretty cute, and I thought he was a sweet guy, but after . . . more
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February 26, 2008 06:06 PM EST --
Want someone killed in Australia? The average price for a "hit" is $12,700, but you can get it as cheap as $380. In fact, the Australian Institute of Criminology did a research . . . more
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April 15, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
The whole concept of writing Something Reckless wasn't my fault. It was Penelope Norman's, who is my heroine. Except she wasn't my heroine at the time, she was the sister of my heroine, Miranda . . . more
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February 11, 2008 05:19 PM EST --
In college all my friends had long-time boyfriends, and I was the perennial seventh wheel. I was everyone's sherpa, holding coats and wallets when my pals hit the dance floor or went to sweet talk . . . more
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April 29, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
There are lots of questions I get as a writer. Sometimes people want to know about upcoming books or ask about why I did something with a certain character or they just wonder if I ever thought of taking . . . more
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