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Announcing the Winners . . .

For Your Information

Announcing the winners and honorees of the 2012 Golden Kite Awards & Sid Fleischman Award – SCBWI – http://goo.gl/bplmv

Suzanne Collins Praises Movie Version of Her Novel, The Hunger Games – By Writer’s Blog – http://goo.gl/4wvKC

3 Lies to Face Before You Find Your Passion – By Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/kd8hF

New French Law Seizes Digital Rights – By Victoria Strauss – Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/UX3Pl

The Secret to Writing On Your Blog Every Day – By Joe Bunting – The Write Practice – http://goo.gl/lHWhJ

2 Things to Consider about Blogging & Books – By Victoria Mixon – http://goo.gl/ISzRL

How Social Media, E-Books, Self-Publishing Change Writers Conferences – By Carla King – http://goo.gl/pMj6V

How to Think Like an Editor – By Jeanne Kisacky – Writer Unboxed – http://goo.gl/7d0bk

How to De-Clutter Your Home Office – By Angela Taylor – For The Urban Muse – http://goo.gl/s0BYh

John Locke, ‘Donovan Creed’ Author, On Selling A Million eBooks – By Laura Rowley – Huffington Post – http://goo.gl/hEdLk

Science Fiction: Imagining – And Warning – By Bob Keefer – The Register Guard – http://goo.gl/uRJZO

The Cold, Hard Truth About Guest Posts – By James – Men With Pens – http://goo.gl/vJ3Ul

ALA call on Random House to recondiser major ebook price increase – By Macey Morales – ALA Press – http://goo.gl/3cERI

Bondage writer whose books have taken America by storm is British mother-of-two – By Daily Mail Reporter – http://goo.gl/10MWX

Quote(s) of the Day

“A word is dead, when it is said, some say. I say it just begins, to live that day.” – – Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

Writing Contest

Solstice Magazine 3rd Annual Literary Contest – Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry – Deadline April 5, 2012 – http://goo.gl/94Yz4

 

 

 

 

 

Giving Thanks . . .

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig

 

For Your Information

Giving Thanks, Yet Again – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/EU1SO

The Rarely Spoken Variable – By Larry – storyfix.com – http://goo.gl/LCB9v

“Brushing it Off” Vs “Brushing It Off” – By Nick Thacker – Problogger – http://goo.gl/wCNlw

One Week To Go! – Are You Slowing or Speeding Up? (National Novel Writing Month) – By Christopher Jackson – Fuel Your Writing – http://goo.gl/s4RXs

Anne McCaffrey Dies at 85 – By Dpomerico – Science Fiction & Fantasy – http://goo.gl/gpqsw – Read many of her books; she will be missed.

 

Quote(s) of the Day

“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.” – John Rogers

“As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors!” – Rhys Alexander

 

 

Special Tribute

Author and writer, Anne McCaffrey April 1, 1926 – November 21, 2011

A great writer, who’s best known for her award-winning Dragonriders  series.

A great loss to the Fantasy and Sci-Fi readers. She will be missed.