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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Monthly Archive: August 2009
Update to prayer requests
The baby whose heart stopped immediately after birth was hooked up to a heart-lung machine (ECMO) the next morning. The purpose of this machine is to take over the job of the heart and lungs while the baby remains sedated,…
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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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blah blah blah blah blah blah
Do you remember the Tom and Jerry cartoon where Jerry’s a Musketeer, and he gets his nephew Nibbles as an apprentice? Nibbles begins, “Bonjoooour, Monsieur Jerrie!” and then talks and talks and talks and talks and talks…. (at about 1:07 you’ll…
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Urgent prayers, please
On my parenting board, in the last 24 hours we’ve had: 1) one woman whose mother died in a car accident (and she herself was hurt) 2) one woman who delivered a baby, and the baby’s heart stopped after delivery….
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In which a book impresses me
I love books. Maybe you’ve figured it out by now, but if you haven’t, there it is: I love books. I love the feel of them, the smell of them, the piles of them (er, sorry Patient Husband…I’ll move those…
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The winner of the 100,000 hit party is…
Diana. 🙂 I’ve emailed her already and will get her signed book out to her as soon as I get to the Post Offal. Thank you all for showing up and having fun! I honestly couldn’t run this weblog without…
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Pitching, querying, dusting off
I’d forgotten how obnoxious it is to have to stuff a 100,000 word novel into a couple hundred words for a query letter. I beat ♥My Book♥ to death last week, came up with a pitch I thought might work…
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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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