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Another Review This Week

A few years ago, I picked up  Dad Versus The Grocery Store, by Benjamin Wallace. It was originally titled, “Dumb White Husband vs. The Grocery Store” You can find my short review here. And the ebook is FREE to download! (Just click on the title.) Recently, I was bored. 🙂 and decided to see what books …

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How-To Writer’s Books

There are many “How to Write” books out there and quite a few people that I’ve talked to recommend Stephen King’s “Stephen King on Writing” I enjoyed the book, but felt it was more of a memoir than a writer’s self help book. One of my favorites is, “How to Write and Self- Publish Your …

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What’s new with me? I Yahoo’d myself!

There’s a couple of things I want to talk about today and I’d love to hear your views! I’ve Googled myself before…Come on, admit it. You’ve Googled yourself too! LOL! But I don’t think I’ve ever Yahoo’d. What did I find out? Well, for one, I am all over the place. But there was one …

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An Interview with Alex Billedeaux!

Hi Alex and welcome to Karen’s Different Corners. I hear you have a new book coming out, so we are going to pick your brain and put you on the hot seat. 🙂 Gee, that doesn’t sound very nice, does it. How about I just ask you some questions about your latest novel? Everyone, please …

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Welcome James Smith

Please welcome, James Smith, the co-creator of The Short Story Group.Hi James and welcome to Karen’s Different Corners. Tell us how you got involved with the short story group? I was there at the start. I had read Vanessa Westers book and had sent her one of my short stories to look at, the idea …

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Wrapping up, Show Me Your Cover!

Well we are done! I want to thank all the authors who shared their covers with Karen’s Different Corners.  Click on their name and it will take you to their post here on my blog. A Big round of applause for the authors!   Robert Pruneda               Queen of Spades     Dannie …

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All Authors Blog Blitz with Queen of Spades!

Please welcome “Queen of Spades” To the “All Authors Blog Blitz!”  “If one were to use two words to describe me, the closest thing would be Life Writer.  Although I mainly write poetry and prose, I don’t limit myself to a certain style nor a certain subject. I write about what I can relate to …

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Come One! Come All!

I have a lot of new and old (well not old, but they have been done before) posts coming up on my blog! And I want to invite everyone to stop by. First:  It’s the BOOK BLOG BLITZ!  Well not really, but that’;s what I’ve been calling it. 🙂 I am part of the group  Self-Published and …

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My Review of “The Ninja Librarian”

   Last year I did a series of blog posts about, “Judging a Book by its Cover”  I had twenty four authors who shared their book covers here on my blog, telling my readers and myself  how they came up with the ideas for their covers. At that time, I told you not to judge …

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When Are You a Published Writer?

At my last writer’s group meeting we got onto the subject of, “When are you considered a published writer/author?” Do you have to be paid for your work to be considered published? What if you wrote a letter to the editor of your local newspaper? Are you considered published then? Or if you have a …

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