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Testing the Features Category

This is a test of the Features category. FEATURE IMAGE
- You need to add an image in the custom fields box.
- Create a Key named “Feature Image”
– Give it a value of the URL to your image (see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments if you don’t know how to upload images).
Optional: Create a Key named “Feature Alt” and […]

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Unscientific Method for Identifying a Bad Book

I recently discovered, quite by accident, a very unscientific, yet useful, method for identifying a poorly written novel. This is only my opinion, mind you, but it seems to work. Here’s how: I read the first two or three chapters, or first 30-40 pages, whichever is greater. If I can then skip to […]

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Oops …

Twice in the last couple of days, a very attentive — and very helpful — listener named Carol has called my attention to the fact that she was unable, for technical reasons, to listen to a few of my interviews. Thanks to Carol I found a couple of audio or HTML files that contained errors, […]

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Back when I was your age…

I may not be a full-fledged old fogy yet, but I have my learner’s permit.  When I started interviewing authors, back in the mid ’80s, most of the authors I met were older than I was. Sometime in the late ’90s, it began to feel like most of them were my age. And now, they’re […]

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Dumb dumb dumb dumb

I just finished one of the worst interviews I have ever done, and it was absolutely no one’s fault but my own.  (No, I will not embarrass the author by telling you who it was.)  I actually apologized to him after the tape was turned off, for the lousy job I had just done. And […]

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