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• Become a Book Reviewer
  I have been very fortunate in my life in that I became friends with people who provide me with ample numbers of books to review. Getting free books in exchange for in depth reviews still amazes me. [...]
• Become a Book Reviewer
  I have been very fortunate in my life in that I became friends with people who provide me with ample numbers of books to review. Getting free books in exchange for in depth reviews still amazes me. [...]
• Rethink Social Networking
  If you want to have it all - and I do - you have to make sacrifices of less-than-worthy activities, obligations, even relationships. Ouch. Did I just say you have to sacrifice relationships? Well, [...]
• Sam's Quest for the Crimson Crystal by Ben Furman - Review
  Not every hero looks like a hero, and Samantha Mae Costas is no exception to that. With thick glasses and always carrying around an inhaler for her asthma attacks, ‘Sam’ is convinced she is no [...]
• Interview with Return Author Shobhan Bantwal on The Forbidden Daughter
  Hello and welcome back to Fiction Scribe, Ms. Bantwal! List five things you feel define you as a person. Active Imagination Family Career Passion for reading and writing Appreciation of [...]
• From the Pages to the Small Screen
  I love seeing one of my favorite characters from novel turned into a live action one on big screen. But what about the small screen? One of the highly talked about premieres on TV this fall is based [...]
• The Writing Process, Part 2
  Read the first installment here. The next two steps are not needed for every piece, though they can get you moving again when you feel stuck even on shorter articles. It's time to do [...]
• Booking Through Thursday - Peer Pressure
  Woohoo! My question is up for this week's Booking Through Thursday! How cool! (So what if I get excited about these things...) On to the question! I was looking through books yesterday at [...]
• Paulo Coehlo Celebrates 20th Anniversary of His Best-Selling Novel `The Alchemist'
  You are an author. You finish writing a novel and it is released to the public. But sales are slow. Did you know that your publisher could drop not only you as a writer, but also the book as a whole? [...]
• The Writing Process, Part 1
  We writers make a lot of mistakes. Sometimes we cite articles that contain faulty research. Sometimes we misspell a name or use a comma when we should have used a semicolon. Our biggest mistake, [...]