Tag: books
member name: Pat Bertram
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March 23, 2009 12:16 AM EDT --
I seem to have sidled into the book review business. Well, not business exactly, because no one is going to pay me, but a few people asked me to review their books, and I volunteered to review a few others, . . .
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January 04, 2009 11:09 PM EST --
Dale Cozort , author of American Indian Victories , is a guest at Bertram's Blog. Dale has written a three part series on the future of books that I think is important. . . .
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March 28, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
It's been sixteen months since some of you read the first chapter of More Deaths Than One . It's been nine months since I first announced that it would be published. And now . . . it's . . .
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September 14, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
I took an informal poll to find out how people discover new authors. (Hmmmm. Wonder why I’m interested in that!) I posted the following on discussion boards on both Goodreads and Facebook:
It . . .
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September 10, 2008 01:08 AM EDT --
Wendy wants to talk about blogging, and I want to talk about recommendable books, so let's do both topics. This is the two hundredth thread, after all, and should be something special. Or . . .
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April 28, 2008 01:56 PM EDT --
I don't think I have the proper attitude for reading today's novels. (Or yesterday's novels, either - I tried to read Nicholas Nickleby and by the time I paged through the list of illustrations, . . .
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April 21, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
The first half of a novel comes slowly for me. Some writers can sit down and let the story whoosh out of them, but I have to think of everything, to create everything, to draw in words the images I want . . .
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March 29, 2009 12:12 PM EDT --
A Spark of Heavenly Fire is available from Amazon , Smashwords , and Second Wind Publishing, LLC .
Friday, December 2
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April 22, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
Steven Clark Bradley , author of Patriot Acts , has written such a marvelous review of my novel More Deaths Than One , that I can't keep it to myself. I want to shout it to . . .
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March 25, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
After seeing my article, " A Book Reviewer's Lexicon ," where I mentioned that I'd read 20,000 books, Ken Coffman asked what books stuck out in my mind as premier ones, what authors . . .
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October 19, 2009 01:45 PM EDT --
Day Two of my Virtual Book Tour, and I am still going strong. This is like saying: I've just run the second block of a marathon and am still going strong. Most of the tour is still ahead of me, but I'm . . .
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October 20, 2009 01:51 PM EDT --
Again I will be at Malcom's Round Table discussing Daughter Am I , but this time we will be focusing on the quest angle. The hero's path, the mythic journey, the quest -- these are all different names . . .
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October 21, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
Mary stared open-mouthed into the hole in the wall. Instead of the dining room, which should have been on the other side of the wall, there was a windowless room not much bigger than a walk-in-closet. . . .
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October 22, 2009 04:40 PM EDT --
The Internet is such a wonderful place. Today, day five of my blog tour, I am in Florida with author Nancy J. Cohen talking about dialogue. Virtually speaking, that is. Physically, I am in Colorado, listening . . .
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April 25, 2008 01:27 PM EDT --
Why should I read your novel? Why should anyone? Only you know the answer to that, and you tell us by the story you choose to tell, the characters you choose to create, the themes you choose to develop. . . .
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April 01, 2009 09:54 PM EDT --
The most compelling characters are those who want something desperately and who will do anything to get it, which is why Scarlett O'Hara is such a perennially popular character. Frankly, my dear, . . .
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