Tag: pat bertram
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May 17, 2009 10:56 AM EDT --
On May 17, 2007, I --- or rather, Pat Bertram --- signed up for the Internet, and it was love at first byte. The entire world opened up to me, and I was reborn. I’d already written four books, . . .
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June 16, 2009 01:39 AM EDT --
On Tuesday June 16, 2009 I'm going to be interviewed on Rita Schiano's blogtalk radio show: Talk To Me...Conversations With Creative, Unconventional People. I would love to have you call in with a question. . . .
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November 25, 2008 07:12 PM EST --
Pat Bertram invited me to be a guest blogger on her site, http://ptbertram.wordpress.com , so I hope you'll visit us there .
I expect I'll be wandering around Pat's page for . . .
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February 24, 2009 11:16 PM EST --
Second Wind Publishing is running a contest based on Pat Bertram’s book, More Deaths than One . The three finalists are posted at http://secondwindpublishing.com/bertramcontest.html , and I’m one . . .
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January 10, 2008 02:20 PM EST --
I have been having a hard time getting into my newest writing venture, so I've been experimenting with writing scenes as I think of them, but my linear mind objects. It wants me to start at the beginning . . .
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January 17, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
On Tuesday I received two encouraging emails. The first was a rejection letter from an agent:
"Thank you for allowing us to review your manuscript for Light Bringer . Your writing is very . . .
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January 09, 2009 02:53 PM EST --
Some of you read this chapter when I posted it for the TruTV Search for the Next Great Crime Writer contest (which I did not win -- what were they thinking?) but I'm pleased to announce . . .
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May 12, 2009 08:43 PM EDT --
I tried using Google today. I wanted to find the author of some half-remembered books that I enjoyed as a teenager. And amazingly enough I succeeded. It seems even I can successfully ask ill-defined . . .
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January 27, 2008 12:54 PM EST --
To be real, a character must have strengths and weaknesses. I have been creating a profile for Chip, the hero of my work in progress, and I know some of his strengths: he is independent, can . . .
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December 14, 2008 02:36 PM EST --
Monday, Pat Bertram is interviewing author Michael Palmer in his very first online interview.
http://ptbertram.wordpress.com/
I can't wait to hear what he has to say. Dr. Palmer's 14th novel . . .
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January 31, 2009 09:09 PM EST --
Win an autographed copy of More Deaths Than One (my very first autograph!) and your choice of two other titles from Second Wind Publshing LLC.
The premise:
A friend of mine found an . . .
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July 26, 2009 09:44 PM EDT --
When he entered the cornfield and saw the stalks closing in over his head, his heart beat faster and icy beads of sweat chilled his brow. He wiped his clammy hands on his pants and forced himself to relax. . . .
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January 24, 2008 01:18 PM EST --
Well, here it is. The Publishers Weekly review of my Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award entry Daughter Am I :
A group of spunky octogenarians joins a woman on a search to discover the truth . . .
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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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April 24, 2009 02:04 PM EDT --
The first three pages of “More Deaths than One” have to constitute a serious contender for the best opening scene of a novel. Two main characters are introduced, a garrulous waitress and a taciturn . . .
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November 09, 2009 02:10 PM EST --
I want to be a writer. I really, really want to be a writer. But I'm not sure the odd self-published book can count - do real writers run round the room shouting "Hurray" when they've sold a whole seven . . .
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October 14, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
Daughter Am I is now available from Amazon , Smashwords , and Second Wind Publishing . Some of you might recognize the story -- it is an updated version of my Amazon Breakthrough Novel . . .
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May 27, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
On Thursday, April 9th, Lazarus Barnhill, author of Lacey Took a Holiday and The Medicine People hosted a live chat about writing and destiny for my No Whine, Just Champagne group . . .
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July 16, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
Another week of summer has passed since we last met. Don't know whether to be glad the heat is going to be leaving us, or whether to be sorry that winter is creeping up. There. Now don't you feel just . . .
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July 23, 2009 06:41 PM EDT --
July is almost over. I could ask where the time has gone, but I know the answer to that one -- it passed me by while I was paying attention to other things. No, writing is not one of those things, unless . . .
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