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#NaNoWriMo Special: How to Keep Writing with a Full-Time Job

You don’t have to be doing #NaNoWriMo to get this deal, but it may help. But you have to move fast! Today How to Keep Writing with a Full-Time Job is just 99¢ (or the equivalent in your currency). Then it creeps back to normal price. Click to buy here (or change to your regional…

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WMHT Local Writers Interview

WMHT and the Greenwich Free Library are hosting events around the Great American Read. They’re also highlighting local authors — like me! Check it out on their Facebook page: Read the rest here. What’s your Great American Read? I wanted to say Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, but it’s not on their list. But…

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FFB: A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

I don’t know why I put this off so long: maybe it was knowing it was set in the publishing world. That sort of roman à clef doesn’t usually appeal to me much — possibly because there is nothing much that will surprise me about the publishing world anymore. But dashing off on the train to…

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Ione’s Dream Festival: Dreaming as a Musical Practice

The SpeakEasy dames are hosting Ione’s Dream Festival this week: check it out on Facebook. Today’s entry by Lys Guillorn, singer-songwriter and all around great gal, can be found at her website. Here’s a taste: I trust my dreams to reveal aspects of reality that I can’t access in waking life. The shuffle of influences,…

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Ione’s Dream Festival: Rebirth of the Beast

The SpeakEasy dames are hosting Ione’s Dream Festival this week: check it out on Facebook. Here’s today’s entry by Sturm Hawke: Rebirth of the Beast  It awoke with a start. Light streaming into familiar and yet unfamiliar surroundings. It knew this place, and yet it seemed… different. Reflexively, it curled up for protection, and comfortingly felt…

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Ione’s Dream Festival: Hypnosis

The SpeakEasy dames are hosting Ione’s Dream Festival this week: check it out on Facebook. Here’s today’s entry by Adele Wearing, the feral leader of Fox Spirit Books. I love hypnosis. Like really love it. It’s about the only way I have to relax without being fast asleep. I mean ok I do occasionally fall…

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