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Game of Thrones meets Dune?

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"Game of Thrones meets Dune?"   You be the judge.   Award-winning author Nicholas C. Rossis is heating up the charts in the realm of epic fantasy and sci-fi. For a strictly limited time, you can get the first novel of his best-selling series, Pearseus, for FREE.   What is it about?   It's New Year's Eve, the year of 2099, but the distinguished guests aboard the Pearseus won't get to countdown seconds; soon they'll be counting bodies and survivors after the spaceship's crash landing on another planet. The good news? The planet is seemingly hospitable both in resources and in terms of the natives' attitude towards earthlings. The bad news? They might have come on this planet bare of possessions, but what they haven't been able to shed are the shortcomings of their human nature. Will that be the sole threat to a unified future, or is the new land and its first inhabitants not as innocent as they look? Schism  is the prequel to the

Today's Typo #9

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Roselle Park councilwoman quits over 'Christmas' tree lighting "It came down to the addition of a single word..." It certainly did. In the first sentence of the article. Full article here: http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2015/12/roselle_park_councilwoman_quits_over_tree_lighting.html

10 Questions with Writer Gwyneth Jones (@AnnHalam)

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This Author Spotlight features Gwyneth Jones author of Grasshopper's Child Gwyneth Jones was born in Manchester, England. She took an undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex, in History of Ideas (with Latin), specializing in seventeenth-century Europe, which gave her a taste for studying the structure of  scientific revolutions, and societies (scientific and otherwise) in phase transition; a background that still resonates in her work.  She's written many genre novels for teenagers, mostly using the pseudonym Ann Halam, and several highly regarded science fiction novels for adults, notably the Aleutian Trilogy: White Queen, North Wind, and Phoenix CafĂ© ; Life , the fictional biography of a woman scientist of genius, and the ‘near-future fantasy’ series, Bold As Love based on alternative cultures, horrific new science, revolution and rock music in a darkening world.  Collections of her critical writings and essays ‘Deconstructing

#NaNoWriMo2015 Diary -- Day 30 ... WINNER!

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Day 30 Yay! I wrote a lot and reached 74,802 words when it was time to validate the manuscript on the NaNoWriMo website. I actually signed up for NaNoWriMo this year on November 3rd, three days after it began. I therefore wondered if I could continue NaNoWriMo for an additional 3 days, writing until December 3rd, which would give me a chance to actually complete the novel.  My first goal was to write 50,000 words. My second goal was to reach 60,000 words. My third goal was to complete the novel. I'm very close. So those three days would've helped a lot. I therefore contacted Grant Faulkner on Twitter. Grant is the Executive Director of NaNoWriMo. I figured he would know. So I asked him if the three-day rule would apply (start from the bottom): Grant was very gracious and of course the whole thing was very tongue-in-cheek. Thanks, Grant, for being a good sport! So, the writing continues. I didn't get started writing today as