Monthly Archive: August 2009

We the narrator

After a BA and MA in English literature, I figured I’d seen it all in terms of the point of view character. The first person narrator and the third person narrator are old hat, and I’ve both seen and written…
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Baby, befuddled

If you’ve seen the Sandra Boynton Book A to Z, it’s simply a list of characters and an alliterative verb. Aardvark admiring (with a picture of an aardvark looking at himself in the mirror.)  Turkey tripping is a perennial favorite…
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Booking down memory lane

Capt_Cardor left this comment, and I’m moving it up front in case anyone missed it: I was an outside boy, raised on the streets of Brooklyn, albeit a kinder, gentler Brooklyn than today. I didn’t actually come to serious reading…
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It’s a party! 100,000 hits!

Sometime Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, this weblog will reach 100,000 hits. In celebration, let’s have a party. Leave a comment in the combox and I’ll automatically enter you to win a signed copy of my novel, Seven Archangels: Annihilation.  If…
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