Tomorrow is Ice Cream for Breakfast day, so I’m giving you a heads-up today, so you can stock up. Is there a better excuse for ice cream than this? Enjoy!
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I never understood what this day meant until I saw the movie. Then I still didn’t really appreciate it until I had moved to the northern hemisphere and got to experience an actual winter, with snow and everything. Given how mild this winter has been, I don’t mind which way the decision goes. You? t.
A Geek Girl’s Guide to… is an ongoing series about becoming more technically savvy, so you can maximize your ereading pleasure. Links to back-posts are at the end of this post. – t. ___ Picking your Reader. Many readers who are new to ereading tend to pick what they read upon by default. Often, they
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I wrote “11 Things I Wish I’d Known About Full Time Writing When I First Started Writing Novels” way back in 2009, when I was forced to full time writing by a sudden cessation of revenue. That’s pirate speak for “my job was cut”. In January 2013 I added an update to the bottom of
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Thanks to the international date line and time zones, by the time you read this, Australia Day will be over and done in Australia. But it’s Australia Day for me, so I’m digitally waving the flag. Hope the fireworks were good this year!
A Geek Girl’s Guide to… is an ongoing series about becoming more technically savvy, so you can maximize your ereading pleasure. Links to back-posts are at the end of this post. – t. ___ Sideloading Books What exactly is sideloading? A lot of readers get very confused by this term. It’s a made up word
On Women and Love in Dystopian Novels Today my guest author is Beth Elisse, and she has written a thought-provoking look at dystopian stories, which have become such hot property in the last few years — particularly in the Young Adult genre. ______ Novels foreseeing the fall – and subsequent repression – of human society
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This is a short series, The Twenty-First Century Reader’s Manifesto, where I will share what I see as the essential strategies and tactics a reader (you and me) should use to maximize their reading experience here in the twenty-first century. For links to previous posts, and the rest of the series as it is published,
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From the Mailbag. January 18, 2016 From time to time, I get email (usually) asking me a question that deserves to be answered in public, where a lot of readers who have probably been wondering the same thing can see the answer, too. I got this email the other day: Hi Tracy; I really liked
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I’m pretty sure everyone knows who Nero was — he was the emperor who “fiddled while Rome burned” — although whether he actually fiddled or simply procrastinated while the great fire of Rome razed most of the city to the ground is open to dispute. But everyone pretty much agrees that Nero was a fairly
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