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Palin to Stop in Tulsa

November 12, 2010 / / 0 Comments

America’s Grizzly Mom will make a Tulsa stop on her upcoming book tour. HarperCollins announced Wednesday that the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor will tour to promote her second book, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag.

Sarah Palin

Book Signing Brings Palin to Tulsa

The Tulsa stop will break with arrangements to visit Barnes & Noble locations in favor of the Mardels Christian Book Store on 71st Street at Highway 169. The appearance is scheduled for Friday, November 26.

Palin continues to flirt with the idea of a 2012 GOP presidential run, and her book tour will skip the east coast in favor of the heartland. Sunday, the former governor kicks off her new TLC reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” The show has already been described as the “earliest, most expensive presidential campaign ad ever made.”

You’re Late! You’re Late! NaNoWriMo Awaits!

November 10, 2010 / / 0 Comments

Shame on me! Meaning to remind everyone to get out the pens, papers, word processors, and dictation machines – here it is nearly half-way into November and the first mention of NaNoWriMo!

For the unititiated (which is probably just about everyone…) the initials stand for National Novel Writing Month – it was started some years back as a way to encourage would-be writers to get something – anything – completed, at least as a first draft.

Last year, some 165-thousand folks gave it a shot. The idea is quantity, not quality. Writing a novel is an endeavor that can get endlessly bogged down in fine-tuning, editing, scrutinizing, and just plain micro-inspecting. The NoNoWriMo folks say “You will be writing a lot of crap,” but I think they mean it in a good way. When the month is over and the great American novel of yours is completed, you can go back and change a word here and there to de-crap it.

Believe me, it is never to late to start! You can still finish 175 pages by the end of November. They’ll even give you some starting ideas, at their website:

National Novel Writing Month

Crack the knuckles and get cracking on the writing!

Here is Sara McGrath’s take:

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Book Terror

November 5, 2010 / / 0 Comments

As if they’re weren’t in trouble enough, what with attacks from television, video games, and electronic readers, now books are under assault by terrorists.

The two young Greeks that mailed a series of bombs to European embassies used a simple mix of gunpowder that they hid inside hollowed out books.

Playing with gunpowder is bad enough, but cutting up a book? That is sacrilegious…

Nobody got seriously hurt, and fourteen of the devices had been rounded up by Thursday evening. Meanwhile, there is a ban on packages being sent by airmail and mountains of cargo are being rescreened.

Terrorism is bad enough for what it is – secret plotting and destruction intended to spread fear, without concern for the lives of innocents. Someone needs to write the book on how to end the perceived need for such activities, and instead of hollowing it out, have the terrorists read it.

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