I am not Angelina Jolie

          Writing has become more and more of a focus for me lately.  I started getting into a new book I was writting but now have decided to focus back on editting the one I finished already.  I’ve been away from it for a while so it feels good to look at it again.  It [...]

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Young Adult=Sex?

          Over the last year I have read a lot more young adult books than I have in the past.  I came up with a concept for a book and the more I got into mapping out how I wanted it to go, the more I realized that it would be a YA book.  The [...]

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Banned Book Week History and Facts

          As some of you may know, it is Banned Book Week.  The event started in 1982 and is held during the last week of September.  The aim of BBW is to gain public awareness of the practice of banning books. 
          Most books that appear on list in regards to being banned are actually being [...]

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Novelist Alice Hoffman going crazy on Twitter

Here’s a link to one of the stories I saw about how Hoffman kind of went crazy on her twitter because she got a bad review…
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/06/29/novelist-hoffman-apologizes-for-blasting-a-book-reviewer-on-twitter/
What does everyone think about this?
Personally I think it is completely out of line what she said. You are in a career that your work is going to be reviewed. [...]

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