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"I must have caught the club right in the temple. I remember her pale face against the inky blackness of the room, then a flash of searing white. And then darkness; total and complete darkness for what may have been one second or six hundred..."
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Refreshing Weird Monthly
Marketing Attention-Grabbers
It’s common to see candy companies change their packaging to red and pink hearts and cupids in February, or to see more hype over diet plans and calorie counting in (post-New Year’s resolution) January. Consumers expect to see these things, so maybe its time for marketing teams to think outside the box.
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Rediscovered Classics - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
When The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins first appeared in 1868, it was printed in weekly installments in Charles Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round. Each week, readers thronged the streets in front of the magazine office, eager for the next part.
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This Week's Headlines - 11/30/2009

Hely’s parody of the publishing world, How I Became A Famous Novelist (Grove Press, 2009) is utterly entertaining but equally unsatisfying. What begins as a satirical romp through the Mardi Gras of literary pop-culture ends right where it began, with a delicious sense of sacrilege and a terrible hangover. Read More	Due to rising concern over what children are reading in the classroom, we the parents at Mothers Against Bad Books (MABB), have compiled a list of books to be considered for banning or Parental Discretion labeling. Read More
We’ve chosen Writer Unboxed as our second Blog of the Week. Writer Unboxed (www.writerunboxed.com) provides an illuminating and accessible glimpse of the struggles and successes of today’s professional writers. I talked with Kathleen Bolton, one of the sites founders, and the author of Confessions of a First Daughter, under the pen name Cassidy Calloway. Read More	Steve Rigolosi is the director of market research and development for W.H. Freeman & Co. a scientific publisher and the author of Tales from the Back Page series. His first novel, Who Gets the Apartment? won Deadly Ink’s Award for Best Mystery of 2006. His second book in the series, Circle of Assassins followed in 2007. Androgynous Murder House Party was released in June. Read More

This Week's Headlines - 11/30/2009

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